William Blake was born in England on the
28th of November, 1757 and he died on
August 12th, 1827.
 Blake was considered one of the greatest if
not the greatest of all English poets and
artists.
 Surprisingly, Blake did not attend school.
Instead he was taught at home. Besides
this, he also learned a lot by reading the
Bible which he drew influence from his
entire life.
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Some of Williams most famous poems
are “The Tyger”, “The Lamb”, “The
Chimney Sweeper (Innocence)”, “The
Chimney Sweeper (Experience)”,
“London”, and “Jerusalem”.
 Some of Williams more unknown poems
are “The Cradle Songs”, “The Little Black
Boy”, “Night”, “To The Evening Star”,
“Songs of Innocence”, “Mad Song”.
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?
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And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
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What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
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What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
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When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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In the poem, Tyger, the first thing you
notice that doesn't quiet sound right is its
title. This is because its written in the old
archaic form. Since Blake is considered
a modern anarchism, which means he’d
go against the accepted ideas and
common spelling for that matter.
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The Tyger is written in trochaic tetrameter
meaning that there are four feet per line.
Blake also uses a catalectic ending
meaning the dropping of the last
unstressed syllable. This gives the poem
a certain beat which signifies power. This
may be used to show the power of the
Tiger.
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The Tyger was written along with its sister
poem, the Lamb to show how God
created both powerful and weak
beings. The Tyger was written in a way to
make it seem as though the tiger had
almost God-Like power. Blake explains
this statement throughout his poem.
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Like previously mentioned the Tyger has
a rhythmic beat to it. This is done
through the used of trochaic tetrameter
and also catalectic endings. There are
four feet per line and they go in stressedunstressed order. Along with trochaic
tetrameter there are also a few lines
were iambic tetrameter is used. This is
done to give the beat to the poem
In the poem it is quite obvious how Blake is
comparing the stronger, predator tiger to
the weak, and innocent lamb. He also
made it clear of how both animals were
made by the same creator, God.
 The theme can be seen as many things.
The clearest thing is the battle between
good and evil and how in essence they are
made from the some creator. This is close
to the fight between heaven and hell
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The lamb takes on a much more
different tone then what the Tyger did.
 Blake makes it seem as though the lamb
is weak and cant believe that the same
God that made the fierce and powerful
tiger also made the lamb.
 The themes are essentially the same,
since they are sister poems to each
other.
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