The Tyger英文赏析

The Tyger and The lamb: In The Tyger Blake points to the contrast between these two animals: the tiger is

fierce, active, predatory, while The Lamb is meek, vulnerable and harmless. The

reference to the lamb in the penultimate stanza reminds the reader that a tiger and a

lamb have been created by the same God, and raises questions about the implications of

this. It also invites a contrast between the perspectives of "experience" and "innocence"

represented here and in the poem "The Lamb." "The Tyger" consists entirely of

unanswered questions, and the poet leaves us to awe at the complexity of creation, the

sheer magnitude of God's power, and the inscrutability of divine will. The perspective of

experience in this poem involves a sophisticated acknowledgment of what is

unexplainable in the universe, presenting evil as the prime example of something that

cannot be denied, but will not withstand facile explanation, either. The open awe of "The

Tyger" contrasts with the easy confidence, in "The Lamb," of a child's innocent faith in a

benevolent universe.

Theme: The poem is more about the creator of the tiger than it is about the tiger itself. The

poet was at a loss to explain how the same God who made the lamb could make the

tiger. So, the theme is : humans are incapable of fully understanding the mind of God

and the mystery of his handiwork.

Symbolism: Black writing his poems in plain an direct language. He presents his view in visual

images rather that abstract ideas. Symbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of his

poetry. The Tyger, included in Songs of Experience, is one of Blake's best-known poems.

It seemingly praises the great power of tiger, but what the tiger symbolizes remains

disputable: the power of man? Or the revolutionary force? Or the evil? The poem is

highly symbolic with a touch of mysticism and it is open to various interpretations. The

tiger initially appears as a strikingly sensuous image. However, as the poem progresses,

it takes on a symbolic character, and comes to embody the spiritual and moral problem

the poem explores: perfectly beautiful and yet perfectly destructive, Blake's tiger

becomes the symbolic center for an investigation into the presence of evil in the world.

Since the tiger's remarkable nature exists both in physical and moral terms, the speaker's

questions about its origin must also encompass both physical and moral dimensions. The

poem's series of questions repeatedly ask what sort of physical creative capacity the

"fearful symmetry" of the tiger bespeaks; assumedly only a very strong and powerful

being could be capable of such a creation.

Background: "The Tyger" just might be William Blake’s most famous poem. Published in a collection

of poems :Songs of Experience in 1794, Blake wrote "The Tyger" during his more radical

period. He wrote most of his major works during this time, often railing against

oppressive institutions like the church or the monarchy, or any and all cultural traditions

– sexist, racist, or classist – which stifled imagination or passion. The French revolution is

a revolution against the feudalism, it has profound effects on the Britain. It brings the

thoughts of “liberty”, “equality”, “fraternity” to the English. After the industrial revolution,

the contradictions of the British social class becomes more serious. People found that the

industry and technology just brought them with pain instead of happiness. So more and

more people became disappointed about the society. That’s why William Blake has

changed his writing style during this time. Blake published an earlier collection of poetry: the Songs of Innocence in 1789. Once

Songs of Experience came out five years later, the two were always published together.

In general, Songs of Innocence contains idyllic poems, many of which deal with

childhood and innocence. Idyllic poems have pretty specific qualities: they’re usually

positive, sometimes extremely happy or optimistic and innocent. They also often take

place in pastoral settings :think countryside; springtime; harmless, cute wildlife; sunsets;

babbling brooks; wandering bards; fair maidens, and many times praise one or more of

these things as subjects. William Blake published the Songs of Experience in 1794, often

railing against oppressive institutions like the church or the monarchy, or any and all

cultural traditions – sexist, racist, or classist – which stifled imagination or passion. The

Songs of Innocence was published in 1789. In general, Songs of Innocence contains

idyllic poems, many of which deal with childhood and innocence. Idyllic poems have

pretty specific qualities: they’re usually positive, sometimes extremely happy or optimistic

and innocent. They also often take place in pastoral settings :think countryside;

springtime; harmless, cute wildlife; sunsets; babbling brooks; wandering bards; fair

maidens, and many times praise one or more of these things as subjects. The themes of

the two collections are extremely different.

The first and last stanzas are identical except the word "could" becomes "dare" in the

second iteration. Kazin says to begin to wonder about the tiger, and its nature, can only

lead to a daring to wonder about it. Blake achieves great power through the use of

alliteration ("frame" and "fearful") combined with imagery, (burning, fire, eyes), and he

structures the poem to ring with incessant repetitive questioning, demanding of the

creature, "Who made thee?". In the second stanza the focus moves from the tiger, the

creation, to the creator – of whom Blakes wonders "What dread hand? & what dread

feet?" . "The Tyger" is six stanzas in length, each stanza four lines long. Much of the

poem follows the metrical pattern of its first line and can be scanned as trochaic

tetrameter catalectic. A number of lines, however—such as line four in the first stanza—fall into iambic first and last stanzas are identical except the word "could" becomes "dare" in the

second iteration. Kazin says to begin to wonder about the tiger, and its nature, can only

lead to a daring to wonder about it. Blake achieves great power through the use of

alliteration ("frame" and "fearful") combined with imagery, (burning, fire, eyes), and he

structures the poem to ring with incessant repetitive questioning, demanding of the

creature, "Who made thee?". In the second stanza the focus moves from the tiger, the

creation, to the creator – of whom Blakes wonders "What dread hand? & what dread

feet?".[1] "The Tyger" is six stanzas in length, each stanza four lines long. Much of the

poem follows the metrical pattern of its first line and can be scanned as trochaic

tetrameter catalectic. A number of lines, however—such as line four in the first stanza—fall into iambic tetrameter.

The Tyger" is the sister poem to "The Lamb" (from "Songs of Innocence"), a

reflection of similar ideas from a different perspective (Blake's concept of "contraries"),

with "The Lamb" bringing attention to innocence. "The Tyger" presents a duality

between aesthetic beauty and primal ferocity, and Blake believes that to see one, the

hand that created "The Lamb", one must also see the other, the hand that created "The

Tyger”.

The Songs of Experience were written as a contrary to the "Songs of Innocence"

– a central tenet in Blake's philosophy, and central theme in his work The struggle of

humanity is based on the concept of the contrary nature of things, Blake believed, and

thus, to achieve truth one must see the contraries in innocence and experience.

Experience is not the face of evil but rather another facet of that which created us. Kazin

says of Blake that, "Never is he more heretical than ... where he glories in the hammer

and fire out of which are struck ... the Tyger".[1] Rather than believing in war between

good and evil or heaven and hell Blake thought each man must first see and then resolve

the contraries of existence and life; in the "The Tyger" he presents a poem of

"triumphant human awareness", and "a hymn to pure being", according to Kazin.