tyger and the lamb
Analysis of The Tyger and The Lamb by WILLIAM
BLAKE
Introduction
"The Tyger" ,one of William Blake(1759-1827)’s most famous poem published in a collection of poems called Songs of Experience , Blake wrote "The Tyger" during his more radical period. He wrote most of his major works during this time railing against oppressive institutions like the church or the monarchy, or any and all cultural traditions which stifled imagination or passion."The Lamp" wrote into his another poetry collection Songs of Innocence, in which contains idyllic poems.Many of those idyllic poems deal with childhood and innocence. Idyllic poems have pretty specific qualities: they’re usually positive, sometimes extremely happy or optimistic and innocent. They also often take place in pastoral settings and many times praise one or more of these things as subjects.Those two masterpieces reflected poet 's meditation about the nature of humanity.
"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence" .Addressing the contrasts of different states of the human mind is the main concern of William Blake. As a British Romantic poet of the 18th century, William Blake addresses the contrasts of different states of the human mind in his works Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The main poem from this collection, "The Lamb," epitomizes innocence and the relationship between the young and the divine. In singsong verse, a curious child questions the nature of a gentle lamb, and he learns what he already knows: God created the lamb. World events and life itself greatly affected Blake. In Songs of Experience (1794), the sequel to Songs of Innocence, he addresses his loss of "faith in the goodness mankind" caused by the fall of the French Revolution. The outstanding poem from this collection, "The Tyger," seeks the answer to the unknown: how can the god who created the peaceful lamb also be the creator of the fierce,
BLAKE
Introduction
"The Tyger" ,one of William Blake(1759-1827)’s most famous poem published in a collection of poems called Songs of Experience , Blake wrote "The Tyger" during his more radical period. He wrote most of his major works during this time railing against oppressive institutions like the church or the monarchy, or any and all cultural traditions which stifled imagination or passion."The Lamp" wrote into his another poetry collection Songs of Innocence, in which contains idyllic poems.Many of those idyllic poems deal with childhood and innocence. Idyllic poems have pretty specific qualities: they’re usually positive, sometimes extremely happy or optimistic and innocent. They also often take place in pastoral settings and many times praise one or more of these things as subjects.Those two masterpieces reflected poet 's meditation about the nature of humanity.
"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence" .Addressing the contrasts of different states of the human mind is the main concern of William Blake. As a British Romantic poet of the 18th century, William Blake addresses the contrasts of different states of the human mind in his works Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The main poem from this collection, "The Lamb," epitomizes innocence and the relationship between the young and the divine. In singsong verse, a curious child questions the nature of a gentle lamb, and he learns what he already knows: God created the lamb. World events and life itself greatly affected Blake. In Songs of Experience (1794), the sequel to Songs of Innocence, he addresses his loss of "faith in the goodness mankind" caused by the fall of the French Revolution. The outstanding poem from this collection, "The Tyger," seeks the answer to the unknown: how can the god who created the peaceful lamb also be the creator of the fierce,
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