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Feb-27-19 | William Blake's Art |
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Added February 27, 2019 at 9:45am
by Paul Allison
Title: William Blake's Art
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Did he see a tiger in a forest at night and the color of the tiger made it seem as if it was a light because of the orange color on a tiger.
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Does he do this on purpose or it’s just a coincidence
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This fire could be a real fire or a mental fire.
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Does he want these questions answered?
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when he’s says “what immortal hand or eye” is he talking about god?
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is he talking about a literal tiger or he is referring/ comparing someone to a tiger?
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i’ve noticed that poems written back then have spelling that are written slightly different as to how we write them now. maybe it was just the writing back then.
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Maybe its a kind of candle
A kind of light?
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Your idea that Blake is comparing the “tyger” to a candle makes me think that this whole poem could revolve around a theme of light and dark, or a theme of good and evil.
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Why did Blake spell ‘Tyger’? I wonder if people spelled like that back then?
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I think by fire he means how the fur of the tiger looks like a bright fire
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why did he write tiger like that to rhyme ?
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Where does the speaker exactly live? why is forest plural? does he really mean forests or is this a metaphor that I, the reader cannot understand since i am not the author.
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the way that the author is describing the setting in this sentence is completely different from what the picture shows at the bottom
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Tiger is created by someone who is immortal- someone who lives forever. Tiger is created by the God. The writer is fascinated by the God’s creature.
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This comment was deleted by Kiran Chaudhuri at Feb 28 2019 2:46PM.
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thanks
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I believe the author was referring to god. And sort of compared Tyger to a god like creature. How Tyger puts fear into the eyes and hearts of the beings that cross his path.
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he mentions immortal power and spirtuality a lot
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Or is making a reference to fire based on the . color of the tiger, saying who dare touch a tiger.
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factts im wondering that two
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well, i’m sure they were well aware the TIger was a predator
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The third line of the first stanza could depict God. William Blake was a religious man. The line could be God because God is immortal. In addiction, the right hand of God symbols the Bible. Lastly, God sees everything so maybe thats why ‘eye’ is mentioned in this line.
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I say this because he says “what immortal hand or eye, could frame they fearful symmetry”, and it sounds like he’s saying what kind of god would take such a shape or form
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who would or could create a Tyger. But I’m pretty sure he was referring to god as the maker of a tiger because he grew up as a christian. And God is immortal.
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In the first three lines there is a rhythm, but in the fourth one, it is broken because it is longer.
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This vexes me. He’s already created this rhythm, then he violates it.
Susan, you said that scholars say he did it on purpose, right? Tell me why, again?
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How is symmetry fearful? is something making it scary? whats the deeper meaning behind this?
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Yes! I hadn’t thought of that. The perfect symmetry of the tiger’s face strikes awe in you — awe at its perfection — I’m convinced that is where the word “awful” comes from — when you are struck by awe.
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what does the speaker mean when they say “fearful symmetry”? I sort of understood when we looked at a picture of a tiger with a symmetrical face but how does this tie back to the meaning of the poem?
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God created the symmetry.
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I like to read poems, and I’ve read a lot. I’ve seen this technique, where the poet breaks their own rhyme. I don’t know how to describe this,
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it threw me off guard, and made me uncomfortable overall
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it probably was on purpose to confuse you to make you understand in the end
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like how dose it connect to a hammer or an anvil. Or is it just describing a tiger in general.
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what does symmetry have to do with brave or fearless ness
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I think so, mostly because of the illustration actually have a Tiger in it
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what exactly is he reffering to?
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Based on this I think he was talking about the depths of the sky because in the verse that comes after, it states,“Burnt the fire of thine eyes” and the sun burns your eyes when you look into the sky for a while. And it seemed like he was wondering why that happened.
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he’s probably saying how far you can go is you be powerful or brave
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I like this metaphor because Blake described tiger’s eyes really good, so we can feel how they really look. They are “burning”.
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because when you think of fire you think of someone or something big and bad. So is he saying that the has become stronger.
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I’m confused on what this mean
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To aspire means to go ahead and move forward. The poet connotates a wing to aspiring because wings are used to fly. And he clearly wants to move on.n
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is the wings supposed to represent angels?
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he probably means how dare someone try to take what makes u special away from you
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This paragraph is asking what type of being can create a creature such as the tiger.
This poem seems like an Ode to the Tiger or an Ode to a higher being, maybe God.
“And what shoulder, & what art,”
-What being?
“Could twist the sinews of thy heart?”
-Could create something so intricate as a your heart?
“and when thy heart began to beat,”
-and when you got this creation to operate,
“What dread hand? & what dread feet?”
-How’d this being move on to create your hands and feet?
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my favorite line is “when thy heart began to beat, what dread hand? & what dread feet” i see it in another way like when the heart began to beat what did it feel, and how would it beating effect it, like you know what i mean.
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what type of art is it
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did he actually mean shoving someone with his shoulder or he means an actual shoulder
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why sinew out of everything do animals have a sinew
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this mean you could stop your heart from being brave
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has if he was scared of something
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When the poet says dread, he s refering to an act of fear. But why would the poet say what dread hand and feet if he didnt fear something? What is he referring to
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why feet? why not something else like armpit or thighs??
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what if he trying say to that you hand and you feet can help do brave this so its saying use them don’t let them be dread body parts
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It is possible that this stanza represents hell. The hammer of hell and maybe the chain is what keeps you in hell. The furnace is hot and thats were things are usually burnt. The brain could be burning because it is dirty. The last line, could be a warning.
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I don’t think he actually cleaning a brain Jailyn
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Fixing something?
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The poet is confused. Just like when we say what the heck or what is going on? But why would he refer to tools. A hammer is used to nail something in and a chain is used to lock.
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Why did they ask in which furnace was the brain? what does this line connote to in real life? what was william blake trying to tell us or ask us here in this sentence?
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it means fear, worry, concern, horrible, awful
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The punctuation in the sentence has an exclamation mark at the end, this probably means this line should be loud
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are they talking about the tigers deadly clasp or something much more greater than a tiger
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I’ll bet that this paragraph is referencing some form of God, an supreme power, and the creation of the world. In line 3, a “he” and his “work” is mentioned. This could be a reference to a God and humans as his work. Line 4
“the Lamb”
Jesus Christ is referenced to as the lamb
Jesus is God’s son
This line could be asking
’Did he who created Jesus Christ create you?
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how does being immortal and tigers relate to religon?
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The author said that the stars threw down their spears and obviously stars throwing spears isn’t that realistic so the stars must symbolize angels. He = god.
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maybe he is happy he made improvement in his creations
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did someone die? and is writing on what he thinks is experiencing
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but tbh i see this as another way to like it makes me feel some type of way. it makes me feel like he’s trying to say i been through so much and done so much to cover my pain, so can i still put a smile on my face to see another day. like thats how i feel i understand exactly how that feels.
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This line intrigues me. I wonder what it could symbolize or what was the intention of this line. I wonder if this line has a religious meaning behind it.
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I believe he meant how bright the stars light shined on people like it almost hurt like a spear
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what does he mean whose tears water’d heaven (god, Jesus) this is just little confusing
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The author is incinuating that its so magical how he creates things. Almost like a snap of a finger.
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does he mean mean like he has the tiger is a male not a female
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The poet is thinking of how he ended up hear. he is referring to a religious belief that God has created us. Is he clueless or undecisive of what he was possibly taught growing up?
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why is this in the beginning and at the end to??
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he put the first and last stanza are the same. why?
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there might have been a hidden message in this paragraph since it shows up twice
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he’s talking about being brave and show how special he or you are
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imortal hand
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The first stanza and the last stanza have every word in common except the first word of the last line. In the first stanza the line goes “what immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” but the last stanza goes “what immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?”. Why does William Blake choose to change that word? What might this act of diction represent?
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is it because it seems perfect and perfect is uncommon so it can be fearful.
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he means that lion how like the lion is brave and the “king” of the jungle he probably saying tyger =power maybe I’m wrong
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what inspired him to draw this picture?
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its a nice tiger. the tiger looked shocked. is there a reason as to why?
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Artists are always very careful about how they choose to do things so would William, being the artist AND the writer of this poem, have intentions behind the colors he chose for his drawing of the poem. Does the tree also have a meaning or is it just there. Why doesn’t it has leaves? For all we know he could’ve painted the tiger purple and green like barney the dinosaur.
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I Dislike his punctuation because tyger tyger burning bright sounds bright and bold and grand and exciting which is what an exclammation point is for
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