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Tyger
Title: Tyger
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 697 | Pages: 3.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Tyger
“The Tyger” Ana Melching
5-8-99
Does god create both gentle and fearful creatures? If he does
what right does he have? Both of these rhetorical questions are
asked by William Blake in his poem “The Tyger.” The poem takes
the reader on a journey of faith, questioning god and his nature. The poem
completes a cycle of questioning the creator of the tyger, discussing how it
could have been created, and then returns to questioning the …showed first 75 words of 697 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 697 total…By switching his rhythm from trochaic to iambic, Blake shows the two
possible natures of god, or of the two creators. By using couplets
he emphasizes the dichotomy of the poem. By using poetic devices
such as euphony, cacophony, assonance, and alliteration he can
further develop his question about the nature of god, gentle, or
harsh. His rhetorical questions are left unanswered. By doing this
he leaves his readers wondering, “Is there really an answer?”
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