...Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Stanza 1 Summary What immortal being created this terrifying creature which, with its perfect proportions (symmetry), is an awesome killing machine? [pic] 2 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? Stanza 2 Summary Was it created in hell (distant deeps) or in heaven (skies)? If the creator had wings, how could he get so close to the fire in which the tiger was created? How could he work with so blazing a fire? [pic] 3 And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet? Stanza 3 Summary What strength (shoulder) and craftsmanship (art) could make the tiger's heart? What being could then stand before it (feet) and shape it further (hand)? [pic] 4 What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? Stanza 4 Summary What kind of tool (hammer) did he use to fashion the tiger in the forge fire? What about the chain connected to the pedal which the maker used to pump the bellows? What of the heat in the furnace and the anvil on which the maker hammered out his creation? How did the maker muster the courage to grasp the tiger? [pic] 5 When the stars threw down their spears...
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...Outline of William Blake “The Chimney Sweeper” COURSE # and TITLE___ENGL 102 Literature and Composition_____ SEMESTER OF ENROLLMENT___Summer 2011____________ NAME__Tammy Boylan______________ID #__L23926585_ WRITING STYLE USED_____APA_____________________ In William Blakes, “The Chimney Sweeper”, this poem is told by a chimney sweep who tells of a younger sweep that is sold into slavery by his father, after his mother dies. The main theme of the poem is that of the loss of innocence of these children, who are depicted in the poem under harsh and abusive treatment in the 1800’s. With their innocence stolen by their parents and their owners these children were forced into confined areas filled with comb webs, and dirty sooty conditions, where their lives were sacrificed to their life of cleaning these chimneys, of which they died of young ages. The narrator tells of the young Tom Dacre’s dream of the only way out of this life of misery. 1. Introduction- William Blake writes of his concern for these children’s well being 2. Body Section – The Poem Overview: 1. The boy’s mother dies at young age (Stanza 1) 2. Sold - Loss of Innocence (Stanza 2) 3. Dream (Stanza 3) 4. Angel (Stanza 4) 5. Hope of a Father (Stanza 5) 6. Their duty (Stanza 6) 3. Williams Blake, diction...
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...William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper William Blake has composed two The Chimney Sweeper, both of which reveal the miserable life of the little chimney sweepers in Britain during the Industrial Revolution. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. --A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens In the comparison between the virtue and the vice of the epoch of Industrial Revolution, Dickens mainly focuses on its dark side. Like Dickens, in the two poems of The Chimney Sweeper, Blake criticizes the cause of unfair and tragic treatment towards the poor children—their greedy parents, the cruel capitalists, the irresponsible government and the unmindful Church. In The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence), the symbols of death exist everywhere, from the death of the mother to the name of the little boy—Dacre (dark), to the coffin. All signify the life is desperate. How to rescue them? In Tom Dacre’s dream, the angel shows him that being a good boy of the God will bring him all the joy. When the reality is too dark to find the entrance of the misery, all we...
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...Rice Mr. Ortolani ELA 12 2 February 2016 The Chimney Sweeper In the late 18th century, an English poet by the name of William Blake wrote two poems about the young sweeps he saw suffering in the beautiful streets of London. He placed one poem in the Songs of Innocence and the other in the Songs of Experience. Innocence and Experience were printed in two phases. In 1789, Blake published of The Songs of Innocence and in 1794, he decided to link them together. Blake, therefore, confirmed his interest in duality at the very beginning in the 1794 edition. When he acquired the fate of chimney sweeps as the topic for a poem in both Innocence and Experience, he gave us at least two ways of seeing and understanding the same social predicament. By comparing Blake’s two ‘Chimney Sweeper’ poems, we can get some logic of his state of mind around innocence and experience as ‘contrary states’. The sweep in Innocence doesn’t recognize the life in which he finds himself. “And my father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry ‘Weep! ‘Weep!’ ‘Weep!” This is one of the many poetic strategies that Blake uses. The repetitive word ‘weep’ is used to show that the child’s language is not sufficient to make sense of his sorrowfulness. He does not know that he has been taught a fabricated language, which makes him believe that sorrow must be a fact of everyday life. Blake proposes that as there is a slight difference in the way the words sound to our ears, so there is little difference in what...
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...and an unrestrained expression of the emotions and imagination of an individual. Contemplations of the natural world inspired deeper thinking about God and creation. This style of thinking impacted on artistic and intellectual texts, such as the poetry of William Blake, in which he conveyed his awe of God’s majesty and power. These poems contrast two vital attributes of the Creator and illustrate a more elaborate and intricate view of God’s fierce, yet gentle nature. Blake’s poetry encapsulates the imaginative expression and heightened emotion that was a key feature of Romantic thinking. Both The Lamb and The Tyger are found in Blake’s iconic anthology Songs of Innocence and Experience, in which he examines opposing perspectives of the world. The purity and unlimited potential of childhood is highlighted through the simple pastoral imagery of the Lamb. The Lamb’s child-like qualities are expressed in the repetition in the quotation: ‘Gave thee clothing of delight,/ Softest clothing, woolly, bright’, which is further reinforced in the simplicity of the rhyming couplet. Moreover, the tactile and visual descriptions reflect a child’s simple exploration of the world around them through tangible imagery. Through this technique, Blake expresses the Romantic attitude to wonder about the natural world. This is contrast with the scenes of the Tyger’s might and fierceness that represents the limitation and corruption that are introduced with the loss of childhood innocence. Blake’s use of...
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...“William Blake was an English poet, engraver, and painter. A boldly imaginative rebel in both his thought and his art, he combined poetic and pictorial genius to explore life,” (http://www.notablebiographies.com/). His artwork and poetry were classified as part of the Romantic era. This historical period made a large advent during the late 18th century and curtailed roughly around late 19th century. The generation was replenished with revolution and war as those who endured though this time felt an extensive concern for the problems of existence, death, and eternity. subsequently in this environment, Romanticism was created. In the midst of his era, he also continued to derive inspiration from others and the events that were involved in the...
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...English 12C 12 April 2011 “The Tyger” William Blake had a unique way of writing poems, especially in one of his most famous works, “The Tyger.” His life as a writer, themes, literary techniques, and writing style are all what make “The Tyger” so successful. Born in London on November 28, 1757, William Blake was an English writer, poet, and illustrator during the Romantic period. Blake was the second of five children born to James Blake, a hosier, and Catherine. As a child it was said that Blake would have unusual visions of spirits. Blake began seeing these visions at the age of eight (“Overview”). Blake had no formal education, being home schooled until the age of ten. Blake learned to read and write at home. When Blake was ten, he was sent to Henry Par’s drawing school to study art. Later Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, James Basire. During his apprenticeship, Blake was sent to Westminster Abbey where he drew monuments for Basire (“Overview”). According to, “Overview of William Blake,” “the Gothic atmosphere of the church influenced Blake’s imagination and his artistic style.” Blake then began writing poetry. After leaving his apprenticeship in 1779, Blake enrolled at the Royal Academy just before starting his life as an engraver (“Overview”). On August 18, 1782, Blake married Catherine Boucher. Blake taught her to read, write, and make prints of his engravings. Blake was introduced to Harriet Mathew, who encouraged Blake to have some of his poetry published. Fifty...
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...Philosophy in Blake`s Songs of Seasons Blake was considerably older than the other tradition"Romantics":13 years older than Wordsworth, 15 years older than Coleridge. He was born in London in 1757and died in 1827. Nature is greatly a very problematic concept that disrupt the calmness of people a long time ago. It is around us and we are part of it . Thus this leads human being to question its changes and phenomena. They worship it out of fears and sometimes out of admiration and wonder. This term actually is juxtaposed with ideas about culture which in a sense is what Romanticism is all about. Some critics believe that William Blake is not a romantic, however, there are many poems show that he is a romantic poet. David Stevens said in Romanticism "William Blake provides a convenient and illuminating touches in this context, if only because his views were so definite and vehemently expressed"49. Blake`s songs of seasons : "To Spring", "To Summer", "To Autumn", "To Winter" are taken from his book Poetical Sketches . These poems reveal Blake`s attitude toward nature. David Steven said in his book Romanticism "Blake Himself hardly ever copied nature in his art and neither did he seek to evoke natural surroundings in his poetry. Yet he was a keen observer at the world around him ,using aspects of nature as a kind of symbolic language to signify human and spiritual values"55. Blake deals in those poems with one the elements in nature which is its changes. Nature, for Blake, is an object...
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...The Tyger: a religious poem? William Blake published his poem ‘The Tyger’ in 1794 as a part of his collection Songs of experience. It is Blake’s best-known poem. William Blake was one of the first writers of Romanticism. He showed faith in imagination. What is very striking and what you notice instantly, is the spelling of the word tiger. He used an y instead of an i. Though in the past, tiger was usually spelled with an y, but in Blake’s time, people started to write it more often with an i. This makes the title itself already put you to thinking why Blake specifically chose for this spelling. It makes you wonder, is the poem about a tiger at all? Or is it only used as metaphor? But these things aren’t unusual for Blake’s poems. Playing with punctuation and spelling identify him. In this essay I’ll 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...
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...“The Chimney Sweeper” By William Blake Poetry Essay Debreshia Wright English 102 Professor Dr. Rockford Sansom Due 9/28/14 “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake, opens a door to show the reader how poor and lower class life was like in the 19th century. In the poem by Mr. William Blake “The Chimney Sweeper” the reader learns about the harsh child labor during the 19th century, the fate of a young child and this child belief in God. These young children had a hard life to lead but through this poem you see how these children were able to escape in there thought of heaven. During the 19th century child labor was a normal way of life. It was so much more important to bring home wages than to get educated. Most families were so poor they had to send the children out at very young ages to help gain wages. Mr. Blake expresses this when he says “...my father sold me...” the child narrator was sold in to what seems to be child slavery. In the poem as the child said “yet my tongue could scarcely cry weep, weep…” it refers to the child not being able to speak clearly to say sweep. This child fate appears to have been sealed when his mother died; it also appears the child would make his father appear cruel and unloving. Because the child says “my father sold me...” it does not state my father sent me to work. This poem has a sense of sadness in the beginning, until the child narrator being to talk to Tom. Tom was having his hair shaved off and I am...
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...The Tyger by William Blake In the poem The Tyger” by William Blake, there are many different sound devices used to help the poet convey the theme of the poem; good and evil. William Blake follows an AABB rhyme scheme, helping to give the effect of two ideas (in this case, good and evil). This rhyming style is the first thing you would notice while reading this poem and it helps give the poem unity and makes it an easier read to follow. It is easily noticeable when lines fall out of the rhythmic pattern, an example of this is when Blake rhymed “eye” with “symmetry”. With the use of apostrophes, the poem acknowledges the use of an unseen force that created this creature. Blake has a number of rhetorical questions in this poem, mostly asking why this unseen force would ever create a creature this evil. He questions why this force would want to include both good and evil in this world. Another poetic device used in this poem is onomatopoeia. This is used when Blake writes the line “And when thy heart began to beat”. Since this poet used the word “beat” in context with the word “heart” you can imagine the sound of a heart beating while reading this poem, giving it a larger effect. Repetition is a large device used in this poem. In the first stanza the poet writes “What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” and this is repeated in the last stanza, with one word changed -could is changed to dare. He changes those two words to add to the intensity of this poem. By...
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...RuilinTu Instructor: Jamie Olson Class: ENG 202 March 24 2015 The Outline of analysising London Part1: Introduction the backgroud of the author: Blake William “William Blake, the first major British Romantic poet, printmaker. The main collection of poems poem "Song of innocence," "Songs of Experience" and so on. Breezy early works, in later works tend mysterious deep, full of mystery. He lives with his wife, paintings and engravings of each other by the poor remuneration of labor for a living, there is no big book at the special book, and only lasted a few simple facts and urgency of artistic activities. Later, the poet Yeats, who restated his poems, it was surprised at his innocence and profound.” Part 2: describe the details about” London” It is a poem about London, the city and people in London. The speaker is not the piping, pastoral bard of the earlier poem: he is in the city. The poem’s title denotes a specific geographic space, not the archetypal locales in which many of the other Songs are set. Part 3: Analysis the content of the poem by each quatrain, first quatrain, The speaker wanders through the streets of London and comments on his observations. Second quatrain: natural River Thames---submits to being “chartered”, a term which combines mapping and legalism. Blake’s repetition of this word reinforces the sense of restriction the speaker feels upon entering the city.Third Quatrain: He presents London through his observation: sight and hearing. The...
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...An Explication of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell William Blake’s trouble with orthodoxy within religion was never more apparent than in his poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It becomes clear that his problems with the Church run deeper than just their organization, but with their views on good and evil, and there is still debate today about what Blake’s true feelings were and how they were conveyed through the poem. This paper will simply explain the nature of the poem and the events that come together within it. The beginning of Marriage sets up an image of a man walking through a “perilous path” that is described as “The vale of death” (Blake 1.4-5). Rintrah, a personification of wrath, watches the man be swayed from his path by the “sneaking serpent,” which can easily be interpreted as the Devil (Blake 1.17). The man is driven into the wild to fend for himself, where he will struggle and be tempted by the good and evil sides of himself and of the world. The next plate that Blake writes is not in a poetic form, but instead calls forth a challenge to the Swedenborgian view of religion. He humorously writes that “it is now thirty-three years since its advent: the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up” (Blake 3). Blake’s jokes about Swedenborg’s relationship to Jesus Christ and his changes to the Christian church lead into his next point, which is how contradictory he believes these...
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...The poem “The Tables Turned” was written by William Wordsworth in 1798. The main theme of the poem is to prove the wisdom and grace of nature. “Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;” This is the first sentence in the poem. William Wordsworth tried to get a message through his poem, showing that life is way more than just science, art and books. He describes the nature as something pretty and peaceful, and that the nature should be enjoyed. “Books! ’tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet” Wordsworth believes that if people would spend more time in the nature and stop overanalyzing everything, they would end up being natural geniuses by letting nature be their own teacher and think with their heart. The poem “The Schoolboy” was written by William Blake in 1794. “I love to rise in a summer morn, When the birds sing on avert tree.” We hear about a boy, who loves nature, and if he could decide by himself, he would prefer to spend the summer outside and play with his friends before the winter arrives. But the boy get a unhappy felling in his stomach, when he thinks about school, he hates going to school, “But to go to school in a summer morn, O! it drives all joy away”. He finds no happiness in reading books, because he is scared to forget his youthfulness. He compares himself with a bird in a cage. Both poem’s themes are the same, just told differently. “The Tabels Turned” and “The Schoolboy” both try to come through with the message that, we do not...
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