William Blake Research Paper
William Blake was a romanticist poet, who wrote poems during the Industrial Revolution. He was born on 28th November 1757 in Westminster, but spent most of his life in London. William became an engraver at the age of fifteen and on each of his poems original prints, there is an engraved picture. He eventually owned a business in engraving. When he was nearly 25 he married a lady called Catherine Bouchier, whom he was happily married to for 45 years. In 1784 he published his first volume of poems. His poems are all very different because he wrote them at different stages in his life and when he was experiencing different emotions. His most well-known collections of poems were “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”. “Songs of Innocence”
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It was written during one of the happier periods of Blake’s life, whereas The Tyger, (from “Songs of Experience) was said to have been written at a depressing time for him and his family. The Lamb is a gentle poem, which is believed to have been written as if it was narrated by a child who is talking to a lamb, whereas the narrator in The Tyger is (in my opinion) quite an old man/woman who has experienced most of their life. I believe this because The Lamb has a naive, simple sound to it, almost as simple as a children’s nursery rhyme but The Tyger sounds like they have learnt a lot from life and the vocabulary has a broader range than a …show more content…
It uses “harsh” sounds, for example “Tyger, Tyger” (unlike the soft words used in The Lamb), with regular line length and matching syllable counts. The structure of The Lamb is that it has 2 stanzas each with 10 lines, (five rhyming couplets) and uses a trochaic tetrameter (four strong beats with the starting beat strong) and also uses repetition but throughout the whole poem, it repeats each line twice at some places. Also, The Tyger features an “AA/BB” rhyme scheme, meaning that in each stanza the first two lines rhyme with each other and the last two lines rhyme with each other. The Tyger also has a drum beat and uses a trochaic tetrameter like The
It was written during one of the happier periods of Blake’s life, whereas The Tyger, (from “Songs of Experience) was said to have been written at a depressing time for him and his family. The Lamb is a gentle poem, which is believed to have been written as if it was narrated by a child who is talking to a lamb, whereas the narrator in The Tyger is (in my opinion) quite an old man/woman who has experienced most of their life. I believe this because The Lamb has a naive, simple sound to it, almost as simple as a children’s nursery rhyme but The Tyger sounds like they have learnt a lot from life and the vocabulary has a broader range than a …show more content…
It uses “harsh” sounds, for example “Tyger, Tyger” (unlike the soft words used in The Lamb), with regular line length and matching syllable counts. The structure of The Lamb is that it has 2 stanzas each with 10 lines, (five rhyming couplets) and uses a trochaic tetrameter (four strong beats with the starting beat strong) and also uses repetition but throughout the whole poem, it repeats each line twice at some places. Also, The Tyger features an “AA/BB” rhyme scheme, meaning that in each stanza the first two lines rhyme with each other and the last two lines rhyme with each other. The Tyger also has a drum beat and uses a trochaic tetrameter like The