Comparing The Goddess Who Created This Passing World And The Tyger

A higher power's divinity, as exemplified in "The Tyger" by William Blake and "The Goddess Who Created this Passing World" by Alice Notley, is seen as astonishing, and both speakers are full of amazement for the creation. The images used throughout the poems display the Creators' divinity because they highlight how intricately everything is made. Although Notley's feministic view of God sets the two poems apart, Blake and Notley's poems perspectives can still be compared. In "The Tyger," the speaker questions how the tiger was created. He can't seem to fathom "what dread hand" created such a powerful creature. In the poem, "The Goddess Who Created this Passing World," the speaker goes through all of the things that the Goddess designed and how they were created so that people could "recognize a painting as
These two portrayals contrast the diction of both poems. Blake's poem describes God's creation with fiercer diction, while Notley's poem describes the Goddess's creation with softer and more picturesque diction. Since "The Tyger" is about a masculine God, male-oriented words are utilized to stress the power of God such as "dread," "sinews," and "anvil." The words are considered fierce because they paint a picture of a God capable of anything. God's shoulders are mentioned because shoulders emphasize the strength of male authority. Words that are more feminine in Notley's poem are "colors", "dreams", and "beautiful". These words are softer because women are considered daintier than men. The Goddess's "voice & wrist & smile" focus on the feminine beauty of a woman, and the importance of beauty in these features emphasizes the beauty in the Goddess's creation. The difference in the sex of the creator causes the poems to focus on distinct aspects of