Literature- The Tyger

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Literature- The Tyger

Introduction

The poem, The Tiger is written by the poet William Blake (1757-1827) who was a printmaker, an English poet, and painter. He spent majority of his life away from the spotlight. Now after almost the passing of two centuries, he is regarded as a phenomenal figurehead of the history of Visual Arts and Poetry.

The Tiger, Blake initiates with question, inquiring about a fearsome tiger. He wishes to know about the Nature of the Being that had been responsible for putting it together in its present form. “What immortal hand or eye…. could frame they fearful symmetry?”

All of the following stanzas of the poems pose more and more inquiries for the readers that related to this initial question. For instance, he asks about the fiery eyes of the tiger, which part of the cosmos could they have come from and who would have had the courage to work with their fire, mould it and contain it within the tiger's eyes? In order to “twist the sinews” of the heart of the tiger, what sort of dark craftsmanship and kind of physical presence was needed? He asks the readers regarding the moment when the heart of the tiger finally “began to beat” how its Creator mustered the nerve to keep to his task till the finished? He compares the Creator to a humble Blacksmith and symbolizes the work of the creation of the tiger like the work done with a furnace and an anvil; how the project needed it and the smith both to be finished? Lastly he asks at the conclusion of the tasks about the feelings of its Creator. Whether He would have smiled to see it in action and also expresses a more of a rhetorical question asking if that is indeed the ...