Following A close study of Tyger Tyger by William Blake and Hawk
Roosting by Ted Hughes, discuss the poets' attitudes towards the
animals in the poem.
I am following a close study of the poems "Tyger Tyger" by William
Blake and "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes. "Tyger Tyger" is about an
evil fearful tyger and was written in the 18th century during the
industrial revolution and this is shown in the text as it is written
in old-fashioned language. The second poem I am studying is "Hawk
Roosting" which is about a hawk in a forest and was written during the
1950's.
The first poem I am going to study is "Tyger Tyger" by William Blake.
From the first line of the first stanza " Tyger! Tyger! Burning
bright" the alliteration gives the poem a child like feel. Also, the
exclamation marks show that the poet is addressing the Tyger and that
he feels admiration towards the Tyger. The second line "In the forests
of the night" also makes the poem sound child like, but there is
contrast in the colour of the "burning bright" and the "night". By
doing this the poet is showing how he feels the tyger possesses both
the energy and destructive force of fire. It is also already hinting
toward the tygers darker side. The third line "What immortal hand or
eye could frame thy fearful symmetry" the poet is talking to the tyger
and asking the tyger a rhetorical question and also describing the
tygers body, he is also referring to the "God" that made the tyger.
In the poem "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes you instantly get an idea of
the hawks arrogance. The first line of the first stanza "I sit in the
top of the wood, my eyes closed" indicates to the reader how the hawk
feels he is so superior. It also shows that the poet feels he i...
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power and strength in to the readers mind. Firstly, Ted Hughes has
added colons and dashes after certain sentences. For example on the
fourth stanza "There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are
tearing off heads-" Ted Hughes has added the colon and dash as it
becomes part of the meter and the pause gives the reader time to think
about the hawk, it is also when the hawk pauses and he is doing this
as he wants to shock the reader. Throughout the whole "Tyger Tyger"
poem William Blake has used certain words and phrases, as he wants to
shock the reader and get over to the reader about just how awful and
scary the tyger is. An example of this is on fourth stanza where he
associates the tyger with tools of hard labour and makes you think of
violence and fire and heat "What the hammer? What the chain? In what
furnace was thy brain?"
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