Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry

MEG – 01: BRITISH POETRY

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

5.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,

In the forest of the night,

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry

These lines are taken from "The Tyger", which is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the Songs of Experience collection. it is "the most anthologized poem in English".It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works, one of the great poems in the English language.

"The Tyger" is the sister poem to "The Lamb" (from "Songs of Innocence"), a reflection of similar ideas from a different perspective (Blake's concept of "contraries"), with "The Lamb" bringing attention to innocence. "The Tyger" presents a duality between aesthetic beauty and primal ferocity, and Blake believes that to see one, the hand that created "The Lamb", one must also see the other, the hand that created "The Tyger”: "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

"The Tyger" lacks narrative movement. The first stanza opens the central question, "What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" ..........

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