...because he, too, had lots of questions he couldn't answer. The first question hints that this poem is not really about nature despite its title, '...What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?' The 'immortal hand 'can only refer to God, and this gives the poem a religious theme that is continued through the remaining questions. Asking so many questions of God - especially 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 both beautiful and fearful, even evil. At the end of stanza five, it is easy to imagine the tiger killing the Lamb, and, with the...
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...and allowing the reader to connect with some type of meaning. In spite of this, the way each particular author uses his certain stylistic approach is completely different and unique than the other one’s. Blake connects with his readers through personal experience and the supernatural. Shakespeare on the other hand, likes for his readers to change their viewpoint throughout his works. They may start out feeling, or imagining, on thing, and then completely change their thought process towards the end. Even though both of these authors have different techniques towards their stylistic approach, their work is still intriguing and unique for every reader. “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”, written by William Blake, both illustrate how the mood can influence the theme and how it is perceived to the audience. While reading “The Lamb” the reader is given a tender and caring perspective as the speaker...
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...SHEEP RECORDS FOR 1r4 Agricultural Experiment Station Oregon State College Corvallis Station Circular 182 December, 1949 FOREWORD Lamb and wool sales grossed the Oregon farmer approximately $12,000,000 in 1948. The trend is to smaller flocks on more farms. Sheep numbers in the nation are at an all time low, but on January 1, 1949 Oregon showed 738,000 sheep on hand or a 5,000 head increase over a year ago. It remains now for the sheep to become more efficient as a means of marketing our grassa chief resource. Keeping records can help the stockman spot those animals that are making him money and those losing him money. This publication tells of a simple record system that can be used in any flock. A workable set of records will net the grower more dollars each year and help him build his flock into a more profitable enterprise. Dean and Director Sheep Records for Greater Profits By W. G. CADMTJS Research Assistant, Animal Husbandry MEET effectively the growing competition from other TO livestock and to maintain a favorable economic positionclasses of in the face of falling prices, the sheep producer must select and maintain breeding animals which will return a satisfactory profit. Animals which do no more than pay their way must be eliminated from the flock. Far too often the sheep breeder tends to single out a few outstanding ewes or rams and rate his flock on the basis of these few individuals. He overlooks those ewes and rams which...
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...so horrific creature. In his poem William Blake says, “On what wings dare he aspire? What hand dare seize the fire” (line 6-7)? The tiger has both a physical and moral meaning. The Tyger represents both the beauty and evil someone can contain at once in the world. The main question that arises in the poem is if the same being that made the lamb which represents goodness, also made the tiger which would represent evil. The poem allows us to assume that this powerful being can make a creature as evil as a Tyger, so he can also make one that represents good like the lamb. The poem talks about the good and evil in the earth when the author uses “skies” representing heaven and then “distant deeps” to represent hell. The series of questions allow the reader to assume only a powerful being (god) could have the courage to create such a beast like the Tyger. The author is successful in getting his message to the reader. The Tyger has a double meaning in the story to most the Tyger would seem as a beautiful but powerful creature that could inflict a lot of harm if it wanted to, but Blake makes the Tyger seem as the evil in the world, and the lamb as the good. Blake goes on to say that the same powerful being that made the Tyger has the power to also create one that is good. The way the poem is composed of six quatrains in rhymed couplets help build meaning to the poem. The simplicity of the poem helps build up the questions of the one main central idea. The poem “The Mother” by Gwendolyn...
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...As an online William Blake fan, I receive at least one request per month from students asked to interpret William Blake's wonderful lyric, "The Tyger." The contrast with "The Lamb" is obvious. ("Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?" The answer is God, who became incarnate as Jesus the Lamb.) "The Tyger" asks, "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" And the answer is, "Yes, God made the Tyger too." To understand "The Tyger" fully, you need to know Blake's symbols. One of the central themes in his major works is that of the Creator as a blacksmith. This is both God the Creator (personified in Blake's myth as Los) and Blake himself (again with Los as his alter-ego.) Blake identified God's creative process with the work of an artist. And it is art that brings creation to its fulfillment -- by showing the world as it is, by sharpening perception, by giving form to ideas. Blake's story of creation differs from the Genesis account. The familiar world was created only after a cosmic catastrophe. When the life of the spirit was reduced to a sea of atoms, the Creator set a limit below which it could not deteriorate farther, and began creating the world of nature. The longer books that Blake wrote describe Los's creation of animals and people within the world of nature. One particularly powerful passage in "Milton" describes Los's family weaving the bodies of each unborn child. In believing that creation followed a cosmic catastrophe and a fall of spiritual...
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...The Tyger "The Tiger," written by William Blake initially called "The Tyger,” published in 1794 in an accumulation titled ‘Songs of Experience’; is a verse sonnet describing the way of God and His manifestations. Advanced compilations frequently print "The Tiger" along with an earlier Blake sonnet, "The Lamb," written in 1789 in a collection titled ‘Songs of Innocence’. Born in 1757 in London, William Blake started written work at an early age and asserted to have had his first vision, of a tree brimming with angels, at age 10. He concentrated on etching and developed to love Gothic art, which he consolidated into his own remarkable works. Considered frantic by his fellow mates for his quirky perspectives, Blake held in high respect by experts for his expressiveness and innovativeness, and for the philosophical and otherworldly undercurrents inside his works (Osbert, 77). His artistic creations and verse portrays as a feature of the Romantic age. Neglected in life, William Blake has since turned into a goliath in the field of poetry and art, and his visionary way to deal with the same just brought forth innumerable, enchanted hypotheses about him. A misjudged writer, artisan, and visionary during his life, he gained the fame mostly in the later part of his life (Bentley, 147). "The Tyger" is a lyric comprised of a series of inquiries. There are no fewer than thirteen questions and stand out full sentence that finishes with a period rather than a question mark. Addressing...
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...At first glance, William Blake’s selection of poetry in Songs of Innocence and Experience seems to be vastly different than the satirical masterpiece that is Voltaire’s Candide. However, despite being very different works of literature, both of the pieces were created in the same time period, and in the same political and international climate (Blake and Lincoln). Both of the literary works are concerned with similar themes, and with the changing political and social climate in western Europe during the mid- to late-eighteenth century. The theme of innocence and the pain of acquiring knowledge is a common thread throughout both of the pieces, and reflect a an era of growing socio-political awareness that emphasized fact and reason over blind faith and mindless servitude. During the Middle Ages, Western Europe went through a religious transformation that led to a type of society that emphasized leading a virtuous life in the way the Bible instructs. One of the fundamental tenets of Christianity is the idea of original sin: that is, the original sin that Eve committed when she ate from the Tree of Knowledge, and convinced Adam to do the same, leading to their exile from the Garden of Eden. Knowledge was long considered dangerous by the Catholic Church, and the type and amount of information that the average person could attain was very limited. However, that all began to change during the Renaissance, which was a re-awakening of arts and sciences in Western Europe; the Renaissance...
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...Part I: One could argue that Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women was one of the earliest feminist philosophical works that set the standard for the feminist phenomenon we know today. In A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft states that it is indeed not a normal incidence that instated the variances between man and woman, but it is civilization and convention that introduced these differences. Furthermore, she positions herself to say that it is the way men are taught differently than women that causes contrasting principles and rifts between sexes. The following quote from A Vindication of the Rights of Women perfectly showcases my notions made in the previous sentence: “One cause of this barren blooming I attribute to a false system of education, gathered from the book written on this subject by men who, considering females rather as women than human creatures…” (152). In Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, we are offered a somewhat accurate look into a post-Wollstonecraft world. The two Pride & Prejudice characters that best reflect Wollstonecraft’s feminist demarcations are Lydia Bennet and Mr. Wickham. As the film progresses, Lydia, the youngest of the Bennet sisters, becomes acquainted with Mr. Wickham and begins to display the very essence of what Wollstonecraft was trying to rebut in A Vindication of the Rights of Women. As Lydia’s infatuation with Mr. Wickham intensifies, she begins to act unsophisticated...
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...Lamb to the slaughter, a short story by Roald Dahl is very interesting and mysterious. The story is about a loving and caring woman, named Mary, who is asked for a divorce by her husband. Ironically, she kills her husband with a leg of lamb, and makes up a story to protect her baby, who she is pregnant with. Police Officials and detectives come, but they are unable to find the murderer, or the weapon. Irony impacts this story because it creates the suspense and adds a twist/turn to the story. Roald Dahl uses Irony in this short story for that reason. First, Mary’s husband, Patrick, comes home from work, asks for a divorce, and will not cooperate with Mary. Since she is caring and loving, Mary goes downstairs and grabs a leg of lamb to cook for dinner. Mary Maloney walks up behind her husband and “ without any pause,” she swings the big, frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brings it down as hard as she can on the back of his head. This is Ironic because before she murdered her husband, she loved him, cared for him, and did everything for him. “She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself,” (Dahl, 1). This establishes situational irony because it...
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...The Lamb The poem begins with the question, “Little Lamb, who made thee?” The speaker, a child, asks the lamb about its origins: how it came into being, how it acquired its particular manner of feeding, its “clothing” of wool, its “tender voice.” In the next stanza, the speaker attempts a riddling answer to his own question: the lamb was made by one who “calls himself a Lamb,” one who resembles in his gentleness both the child and the lamb. The poem ends with the child bestowing a blessing on the lamb. The poem is a child’s song, in the form of a question and answer. The first stanza is rural and descriptive, while the second focuses on abstract spiritual matters and contains explanation and analogy. The child’s question is both naive and profound. The question (“who made thee?”) is a simple one, and yet the child is also tapping into the deep and timeless questions that all human beings have, about their own origins and the nature of creation. Yet by answering his own question, the child converts it into a rhetorical one, thus counteracting the initial spontaneous sense of the poem. The answer is presented as a puzzle or riddle, and even though it is an easy one child’s play, this also contributes to an underlying sense of ironic knowingness in the poem. The child’s answer, however, reveals his confidence in his simple Christian faith and his innocent acceptance of its teachings. The lamb of course symbolizes Jesus. The traditional image of Jesus as a lamb underscores...
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...William Blake “the Tyger” "The Tyger In this counterpart poem to “The Lamb” in Songs of Innocence Blake offers another view of God through His creation. Whereas the lamb implied God's tenderness and mercy, the tiger suggests His ferocity and power. In the poem ‘The Tyger” by William Blake written in 1794 William Blake utilizes quatrains in a fairytale like structure to highlight the triumphant human awareness in this hymn of purity. Blake lived a very religious life “The Blakes were dissenters and believed to have belonged to the Moravian Church.” I believe this influenced blakes life because the tiger in the poem “The Tyger” symbolizes how soft and cute it is, then tells it that God made it and how wonderful that is. This also influenced blake to question religion, politics, poetry itself, history, science, and philosophy. Even today “The Tyger” is read today “elementary students read it because it rhymes and it talks about tiger and high school students read it because of the difficulty”. The poem is very helpful and inspirational for both students and adults. “The tyger” was published with a series of poems called the “songs of experience” in 1794. Blake wrote these poems during the radical period which was a time of passion and imagination. The passion and imagination were the things that influenced blake to write. William blake uses alliteration in the poem “ Tyger Tyger burning bright” he uses it with the t’s and the b’s. The poem consists of six...
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...THE LION AND THE MOUSE Once when a Lion was asleep, a little Mouse began running up and down upon him. This soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him and opened his big jaws to swallow him. "Pardon, O King!" cried the little Mouse, "Forgive me this time. I shall never repeat it and I shall never forget your kindness. And who knows, but I may be able to do you a good turn one of these days?" The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him that he lifted up his paw and let him go. Sometime later a few hunters captured the King and tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion was, ran up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts. "Was I not right?" said the little Mouse, very happy to help the Lion. Questions: 1. What is the title of the story? 2. Who are the characters in the story? 3. What did the mice do that made the lion happy? 4. Where do you think the story happened? 5. If you were the mice, would you help the lion too? The Goose with the Golden Eggs Once when a Lion was asleep, a little Once upon a time, a man and his wife had the good fortune to have a goose which laid a golden egg every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough. They imagined that if the bird must be able to lay golden eggs, its insides...
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...Both passages,"Lamb to the Slaughter"and "The Necklace" have very good irony. In my opinion,"Lamb to the Slaughter",has better irony then "The Necklace",because the wife hid her evidence very good when she killed her husband. The reason the wife killed her husband was, because she was six months pregnant and her husband wanted to divorce with her and in the 1918's it was rare for someone to divorce. The wife didn't want to deal with it so she got a lamb leg and hit his own husband in the head and killed him. In the passage "The Necklace", it had some good irony in it. One of the best irony in the story was at the end when the main character lost her friends necklace, she had to buy a new one and it took her 10 years to buy the necklace...
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...discuss the following question: is The Tyger by William Blake a religious poem? In my opinion, it isn’t at all. In the poem there are used a lot of metaphores and paradoxes. Sentences like ‘burning bright’ and ‘burning fire in thine eyes’ do not refer to burning or fire itself at all, they are just describing the beauty and bright colors of the tiger’s fur and eyes. Such metaphors are not hard to understand and will be recognized immediately, which makes it fun to read. Another example is the title itself. Tyger should be written as tiger of course, but in this poem, he doesn’t mean to discuss the tiger on its own. In this poem William asks himself questions about the Creation. The Tyger is a poem reflected to another poem of his, The Lamb. In The lamb he discussed and focussed on the goodness created by God. In the poem The Tyger, he focusses on evil and the darker side of life. He finds this darker side in the tiger, which is a very misterious animal. He asks himself the question who created the tiger and in his way of writing, it comes forward that he has a sort...
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...Superior Farms is the largest harvester and producer of lamb in the world. For some time, Superior was readily looking for several ways to revamp its business and make it stronger. After many long debates with board members, some of whom wanted no changes at all because they felt they were already on top of the market, a resolution was finally agreed upon. Traditionally, you get lamb already fabricated and boxed, unless you are one of the few customers who gets carcass, or you are close enough to one of the plants. The strategy agreed upon, was brought about by the overweight lambs brought to the plant, growing prices from suppliers, and the bust of the lamb market. This bust was brought on by rising costs across the market in general. At the time of the bust, lamb was $3.02/lb for a whole carcass, and the quality of the meat was suffering due to fat content, as well as the growing number of aging ewes that were being harvested. In order to restore its stock back to previous quality, Superior had to get rid of less desirable meat. However, customers wanted nothing to do with these meats because a majority of the customers were of an ethnic background that had religious belief regarding their food. Superior proceeded to buy 20 new trailers, commonly referred to as a railer, which has the capability of carrying carcass hanging from the ceiling. These railers transitioned into higher costs for Superior because they held 39,500lbs instead of the traditional 42,500lbs for a full...
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