What is immediately obvious to me in Blakes The Tyger is the almighty rhythm the poet has crapd coupled with the app bent simplicity but large(p) power of the language. Blake does this by using repetition, stress and rhythm, reinforcing this further by punctuation and alliteration (Tyger! Tyger! burning bright). The strong rhyme adds save further to the power of the discovers and the images they create. The power which comes from this apparent simplicity is, perhaps, what makes the poesy so memorable. It would be an easy verse form to learn by heart.
It might be easy to read and remember, but it is certainly not so easy to understand. Some of Blakes phrases are odd (immortal hand), some seem very old fashioned (thine), and others are used with different meanings from those we use today ( bod). Added to this, Blake uses many vivid metaphors, which produce strong images of beauty and power (...burning bright / In the forests of the night) but which are less obvious in their meaning.
The rime is also full of questions - twelve in all. Perhaps Blake intends the poem to be less than easy to understand because he, too, had lots of questions he couldnt answer. The first question hints that this poem is not really slightly nature despite its title,
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What immortal hand or nerve center could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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The immortal hand can only reach to God, and this gives the poem a religious theme that is continued through the remaining questions. Asking so many questions of God - peculiarly the final question, which is a twist on the final line of stanza one, (What immortal hand or eye / Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?) seems to suggest that Blake cannot understand how God could create an animal that is at one and the same time twain beautiful and fearful, even evil.
At the end of stanza five, it is easy to cerebrate the tiger killing the Lamb, and, with the Lamb being given a capital L it might refer to...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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