Early Romantics
Early Romantics
William Blake's writings were vivid and imaginative. He used strong themes, and he had a grasp on language that many people don't have. Blake's writings open the reader to his beliefs, outlook, and ideas through his dramatic use of words. By simply dissecting “The Tyger” and the “The Sick Rose”, Blake’s use of colored vocabulary and comparisons tell a story amongst another story.
William Blake's poem “The Tyger” is a poem that alludes to the darker side of creation. He suggests that maybe when God created the earth and Jesus that he may have also created evil, “Did he who made the lamb make thee?”(Blake 758). After reading the poem for the first time, the initial feeling from the author was anger within. The poem begins with the speaker asking a fearsome tiger what kind of divine being could have created it, "What immortal hand or eye could frame they fearful symmetry?"(Blake 758). Blake continues to ask vigorous questions wondering who could create such an evil beast. The first line of the poem the author compares the tigers burning eyes to a distant fire that only someone with wings could reach and only with impermeable hands could seize, referring to hell, which can only be reached by the devil. “In what distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire?”(Blake 758). In “The Tyger” Blake portrays the tiger being a product of the devil and God himself couldn’t have created such an evil creature. Blake symbolizes the nature and the habitat of the tiger as being elegant, but beyond the beauty lies a dark, evil side of the stunning tiger.
William Blake's writings were vivid and imaginative. He used strong themes, and he had a grasp on language that many people don't have. Blake's writings open the reader to his beliefs, outlook, and ideas through his dramatic use of words. By simply dissecting “The Tyger” and the “The Sick Rose”, Blake’s use of colored vocabulary and comparisons tell a story amongst another story.
William Blake's poem “The Tyger” is a poem that alludes to the darker side of creation. He suggests that maybe when God created the earth and Jesus that he may have also created evil, “Did he who made the lamb make thee?”(Blake 758). After reading the poem for the first time, the initial feeling from the author was anger within. The poem begins with the speaker asking a fearsome tiger what kind of divine being could have created it, "What immortal hand or eye could frame they fearful symmetry?"(Blake 758). Blake continues to ask vigorous questions wondering who could create such an evil beast. The first line of the poem the author compares the tigers burning eyes to a distant fire that only someone with wings could reach and only with impermeable hands could seize, referring to hell, which can only be reached by the devil. “In what distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire?”(Blake 758). In “The Tyger” Blake portrays the tiger being a product of the devil and God himself couldn’t have created such an evil creature. Blake symbolizes the nature and the habitat of the tiger as being elegant, but beyond the beauty lies a dark, evil side of the stunning tiger.