romantic poetry blake
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Willaim Blake
“Tyger”
“The Sick Rose”
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Outline
William Blake
“The Sick Rose” “Tyger” (a companion
of the innocent The
Lamb).
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William Blake an English writer, poet, and
illustrator of the Romanticperiod;
Had visions of angels as achild;
1787 the technique of "illuminated writing," or relief-etching.
Songs of Innocence (1789)
1797 –Songs of Innocence
and of Experience ("the twoContrary States of the HumanSoul." )
Imagesource:http://members.aol.com/lshauser2/wmblake.html
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Songs of Innocence and
of Experience
Both innocence and
experience are necessary
states in the developmentof the human spirit. We
are all born innocents,
but when we begin to
recognize evil or wrong,and are inevitably
tempted by it, we pass
into a state of experience.
Higher Innocence: withchildlike trust and vision.
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“ The Sick Rose”
1. What tone(s) can
you find in this poem?
2. Are there imageswhich are ironic?
3. And sound effects?
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“ The Sick Rose”
O rose, thou art sick!
The invisible wormThat flies in the night,
In the howling stor m,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
(spondee? dactyl?Trochee?)
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THE TYGER
1. What sound effects do you
find in this poem?
2. Why are there so many
unanswered questions?
3. What parts of the tiger the
focuses of the speaker’s
attention?
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THE TYGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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?
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 dreadfeet?
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THE TYGER (2)
What the hammer? what the chain?In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb makethee?
Tyger, tyger, burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeDare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Allusions
Daedelus and Icarus
(line 7), the daring Greek god
Prometheus (line 8),
Vulcan the blacksmith
(lines 9-10 and 13-14),
Lucifer and his angels
(lines 17-18)
the God of the OldTestament.
Blake himself?
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