Why did God create both gentle and fearful creatures? Why did God create a world with bloodshed, pain and terror? "The Tyger" by William Blake, written in 1794 and included in his collection "Songs...
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Blake was a poet who wrote about serious adult concerns such as Christian beliefs in a simple childlike form. He interpreted Christianity in his own way and was always questioning it. `The Tyger' is a...
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William Blake himself was a creative figure, who after all was the creator of both "The Tyger" and "The Lamb." Blake forged his own visions, inspirations and language into his poetry and art, and has ...
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry"
This is the first stanza of William Blake's famous poem, "The Tyger" which is...
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Osiris, the God of the Underworld, was once a Pharaoh of Egypt. He brought wisdom and prosperity of the ancient Egypt. The thing he brought was the civilisation of Egypt in a gentle and non-violent ma...
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Both the Tiger and the Lamb pose the question "Who made thee""
The poems begin to show an obvious contrast by answering this question, developing two very different ideas of Creation.
The central t...
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`The Tyger' by William Blake was written in 1794 and `The Thought Fox' by Ted Hughes was written in the 1950's the poems are similar in that they both describe an animal and use this as an extended me...
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