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Willaim Blake

“Tyger”

“The Sick Rose”



Outline

William Blake

“The Sick Rose” “Tyger” (a companion

of the innocent The

Lamb).



William Blake an English writer, poet, and

illustrator of the Romanticperiod;

Had visions of angels as achild;

1787 the technique of "illuminated writing," or relief-etching.

Songs of Innocence (1789)

1797 –Songs of Innocence

and of Experience ("the twoContrary States of the HumanSoul." )

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Songs of Innocence and

of Experience

Both innocence and

experience are necessary

states in the developmentof the human spirit. We

are all born innocents,

but when we begin to

recognize evil or wrong,and are inevitably

tempted by it, we pass

into a state of experience.

Higher Innocence: withchildlike trust and vision.

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“ The Sick Rose”

1. What tone(s) can

you find in this poem?

2. Are there imageswhich are ironic?

3. And sound effects?



“ The Sick Rose”

O rose, thou art sick!

The invisible wormThat flies in the night,

In the howling stor m,

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy,

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

(spondee? dactyl?Trochee?)



THE TYGER

1. What sound effects do you

find in this poem?

2. Why are there so many

unanswered questions?

3. What parts of the tiger the

focuses of the speaker’s

attention?



THE TYGER

Tiger, tiger, 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 seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And, when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand and what dreadfeet?



THE TYGER (2)

What the hammer? what the chain?In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? what dread grasp

Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

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 makethee?

Tyger, tyger, burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeDare frame thy fearful symmetry?



Allusions

Daedelus and Icarus

(line 7), the daring Greek god

Prometheus (line 8),

Vulcan the blacksmith

(lines 9-10 and 13-14),

Lucifer and his angels

(lines 17-18)

the God of the OldTestament.

Blake himself?



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