William Blake

-The TYGER-

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 William Blake

Born November 28,

1757
London, England

Died August 12, 1827

London, England

69 years old
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 Blakes Life
Early years Adult life
Began his artistic Always worked as
career at 10 years an engraver and
old when his father professional artist
sent him to the best Was very poor,
drawing school in especially later in
England life
Apprenticed to an Always felt rich in
engraver at 14 spirit
 The Tyger
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

In what distant deeps or skies When the stars threw down their
Burnt the fire of thine eyes? spears,
On what wings dare he aspire? And watered heaven with their
What the hand dare sieze the fire? tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
And what shoulder, and what art Did he who made the Lamb make
Could twist the sinews of thy thee?
heart?
And when thy heart began to beat, Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
What dread hand? and what dread In the forests of the night,
feet? What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
 Figures of Speech and
Allusions
Alliteration:
- Tiger, tiger, burning bright (line 1);
- frame thy fearful symmetry? (line 4)
Metaphor:
- Comparison of the tiger and his eyes to fire.
Anaphora: Repetition of what at the beginning of sentences
or clauses. Example: What dread hand and what dread
feet? / What the hammer? what the chain?
Allusion: Immortal hand or eye: God or Satan
Allusion: Distant deeps or skies: hell or heaven
 Symbols and Themes
Symbol the Tyger :
- Evil (or Satan)

Themes
- The Existence of Evil