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Essay of Comparison between The Tiger and The Lamb, poems by William Blake
"The Tiger" and "The Lamb" were poems by William Blake, a poet who
lived in the 18th century. In this essay I am going to compare the two
poems and examine links between them relating to rhymes, patterns and
words used.
Blake's background relates on the poems he wrote, and many of his
works reflected his early home life. Blake in his childhood was an
outcast, a loner, and didn't have many friends. His family believed
very strongly in God and were extremely pious Christians but did not
agree with the teachings of the church, so young William Blake often
was made to think about God and his teachings during his studies.
Because his parents were rebels against the Church of England, and
most schools were affiliated with the Church in those days, Blake was
made to find education somewhere else. He was educated from home by
his parents, a practise not done much nowadays.
Blake found he had a lot of free time to think about his many ideas,
his poetry, life and the like, and also found that he had a very
strong imagination. In his poems, many biblical and religious
undertones are found as he often wove double meanings into his works.
By the time he was an adult his active imagination allowed him to
create vivid poetry and paintings, like the paintings that have
recently been displayed at the National Gallery. Blake's most famous
books of poems are entitled "Songs of Experience" and "Songs of
Innocence", and the two most famous poems from these two books are the
ones I am comparing in this essay. Poems from the "Songs of
Experience" are all about the type of God who brought all the evil and
suffering into the world, the vengeful God w...
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Industrial Revolution troubles) and would not have the time or money
to take a trip into the countryside. So it too is like a dream, and a
fantasy, and it is also a sign of hope and peace, because in those
days the industrial revolution was taking place and fields and open
space would be disappearing. In its place would be smoggy factories,
slum towns and waste tips. This imagery by Blake I find is very
effective in also making us remember the conditions most people (but
not Blake) had to live in back in those days.
"The Lamb" is obviously a poem of questions - the main difference form
"The Tiger" being that "The Lamb" provides the answers for the reader
and the metaphorical lamb in the second verse, whilst the latter's
questions remain unanswered. I personally feel that the poem is asking
one main question that is "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
As Edgar Allan Poe once stated, “I would define, in brief the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” The two poems, “Birthday,” and “The Secret Life of Books” use different diction, theme, and perspective to give them a unique identity. Each author uses different literary devices to portray a different meaning.
A cruel dystopian government in an apocalyptic world and a seemingly normal high school have a lot more in common than one may suspect. In Marie Lu’s Legend, the government rules with an iron fist and is one of the most stereotypical dystopian governments. This being said the setting is dark and very lopsided in typical dystopian fashion where the poor live in pure filth and the rich live lavish lives. Overall the setting of Legend appears to be gloomy and hopeless. The setting of Sharon Draper’s Tears of a Tiger has a very similar effect as of the setting of Legend. Tears of a Tiger is set in a fairly normal high school in the city. While it starts out vibrant and cheerful it soon begins to become a very serious and sad story. As Andy in Tears of a Tiger becomes more depressed the more the story makes everything in the setting seem drab and grey. This being said
is a poem about the nature of creation, much as is his earlier poem from
Compare and contrast the poems The Tyger and The Donkey and discuss which poet gives us the clearest depiction of humanity. William Blake is a wealthy, upper-class writer who separates himself from the rest of the wealthy community. Blake has a hate for the techniques used by many of the wealthy, company owners who gain and capitalise through cheap and expendable labour, supplied by the ever-growing poverty in the country. Blake makes a point to try and reveal this industrial savagery through his work. "The Tyger" is presented as a metaphorical approach to the struggle between the rich and the poor; good and evil.
in the time it takes a match to burn, and thus cannot be very long.
The theme of authority is possibly the most important theme and the most popular theme concerning William Blake’s poetry. Blake explores authority in a variety of different ways particularly through religion, education and God. Blake was profoundly concerned with the concept of social justice. He was also profoundly a religious man. His dissenting background led him to view the power structures and legalism that surrounded religious establishments with distrust. He saw these as unwarranted controls over the freedom of the individual and contrary to the nature of a God of liberty. Figures such as the school master in the ‘schoolboy’, the parents in the ‘chimney sweeper’ poems, the guardians of the poor in the ‘Holy Thursday’, Ona’s father in ‘A Little girl lost’ and the priestly representatives of organised religion in many of the poems, are for Blake the embodiment of evil restriction.
In his preface of the Kokinshū poet Ki no Tsurayaki wrote that poetry conveyed the “true heart” of people. And because poetry declares the true heart of people, poetry in the minds of the poets of the past believed that it also moved the hearts of the gods. It can be seen that in the ancient past that poetry had a great importance to the people of the time or at least to the poets of the past. In this paper I will describe two of some of the most important works in Japanese poetry the anthologies of the Man’yōshū and the Kokinshū. Both equally important as said by some scholars of Japanese literature, and both works contributing greatly to the culture of those who live in the land of the rising sun.
After reading, Charles Perrault, version of “Little Red Riding Hood” a story told in the 17th century of France from that time era the 17th century. The audience of Charles writing were for kings, and young women and the royal courts. The purpose of his writing is developed a seriousness of why rich noble age women should be worried about predators. The rhetorical appeals that he displayed was pathos he expressed work of art that stirs up emotions of pity for Little Red Riding, and the Grandmother. So, the audience would feel sympathy and sorrow. By using pathos appeals he made an important persuasion in arguments of different emotions. After, I read upon H.R. Trevor- Roper’s journal article who is known for studies in 17th century history and European history he written an article called The General Crisis of the 17th Century. Roper’s article said that. “The middle of the 17th century was a period of revolutions in Europe: seem to rise out of particular, and local causes.” (Roper). Which informed me on a lot of what was happening in that time era from the many different wars and the revolution in the country. From
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In 1789, English poet William Blake first produced his famous poetry collection Songs of Innocence which “combines two distinct yet intimately related sequences of poems” (“Author’s Work” 1222). Throughout the years, Blake added more poems to his prominent Songs of Innocence until 1794, when he renamed it Songs of Innocence and Experience. The additional poems, called Songs of Experience, often have a direct counterpart in Blake’s original Songs of Innocence, producing pairs such as “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.” In Songs of Innocence and Experience, Blake uses musical devices, structure, and symbolism to develop the theme that experience brings both an awareness of potential evil and a tendency that allows it to become dominant over childhood
Blake is saying to the lamb, I'll tell you who made you, and it is
How did Blake depict the tiger in this poem? At the very start of the poem it is clear in what way Blake wishes to portray the tiger in the picture. The first words he uses - "Tiger!" Tiger. is an aggressive start to the poem, thus implying that Blake is trying to put the tiger across as an aggressive animal.
The theme of guardianship, being the act of guarding, protecting, and taking care of another person, is very prominent in William Blake's 'The Little Black Boy';. Three distinct instances of guardianship can be seen in Blake's poem. These guardianship roles begin with the little boy's mother, followed by God, and ultimately ending with the unsuspecting little black boy himself.
Authors, William Wordsworth and William Blake convey different messages and themes in their poems, “The World is Too Much with Us” and “The Tyger” consecutively by using the different mechanics one needs to create poetry. Both poems are closely related since they portray different aspects of society but the message remains different. Wordsworth’s poem describes a conflict between nature and humanity, while Blake’s poem issues God’s creations of completely different creatures. In “The World is Too Much with Us,” we figure the theme to be exactly what the title suggests: Humans are so self-absorbed with other things such as materialism that there’s no time left for anything else. In “The Tyger” the theme revolves around the question of what the Creator (God) of this creature seems to be like and the nature of good vs. evil. Both poems arise with some problem or question which makes the reader attentive and think logically about the society.
The poem ‘The Echoing Green’ is written by William Blake. It is taken from SONGS OF INNOCENCE. It is divine voice of childhood unchallenged by the test and doubts of later years. Blake expresses in simple and lovely diction the happiness and innocence of a child’s first thoughts about. This is a pictorial poem. ‘The Echoing Green’ is a poem about a grassy field on a warm morning in late spring. The poet gives a very beautiful description of a dawn and morning of spring. The spring represents the life. Morning is the beginning of life and the dark evening is the end. This poem is a blend of child like innocence and grayness of later years. It is symbolic and draws a contrast between youth and old age. Blake has expressed broad meaning of the playground. The children are carefree and they are not surrounded by any kind of worries because worries are associated with old age and pleasures with childhood. The children are busy in games.