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3 min read
Published: May 24, 2022
Words: 560|Page: 1|3 min read
Published: May 24, 2022
William Blake was born in 1757 during a time when Romanticism was on the rise. Born in the town of SoHo located in London, his style of poetry most commonly results with him being identified as an active political poet. A big factor to the reason many argue his poems are timeless is due to the fact he focuses on human suffering which is known to be endless. He uses topics and themes such as racism, evilness, and experience which are all talked about in today’s media and life in general. William Blake has shown his perspective on many topics throughout his poems. Blake took an active role in exposing the corruption taking place in his society. The relevance his poems have on the modern world is what I was be discussing throughout this speech.
Published in 1794 the poem 'The Tyger' uses a wild animal as a symbolic character. The Tyger firstly plays the part of a strikingly intense image. However, as the poem progresses he comes to embody the spiritual and moral problem that will further be discovered. Beautiful but destructive, the tiger becomes the center for an investigation into the existence of evil in the world. The poem slowly and gradually leads to asking some troubling questions.
‘The Tyger’ in essence is a poem where the poet asks the tyger about its creator and his traits. Imagery such as ‘burning bright in the forest night’, appears to refers to the Tyger's bright yellow fur, as it roams freely in the forest night. Even though the description is clear the reader slowly realizes this line actually refers to the existence of God. Alliteration can be seen throughout the poem for example in line 1 the tiger is identified as “burning and bright” this gives a chant-like mood right from the start, this mood follows throughout the poem as you can find the same style of “chant” in line 20 “dare its deadly”. An extended metaphor can be found in stanza’s 2, 3 and 4, comparing the creator and his creation of the Tyger to a blacksmith and his creations. The connection of the creator being a blacksmith represents an image of artistic creation in this example Blake applies it to the godly creation of the natural world.
“The Tyger” is Blake highlighting the horrors he sees happening, asking rhetorically how God could allow those evil actions, the tones he’s given to the poem could best be described as fearful and intriguing. In the 2013 the hit movie 'Life of Pi' was released, “The Life of Pi” like the Tyger both question, the speaker’s wonders for God, however, this is not awe-inspired, but a question of the cruelty of God similar to 'The Tyger'. Both stories use a tiger to portray “evilness”. Poetry is an art form that has survived for thousands of years. We use it gives us information from a completely different viewpoint. Its 2019 and yes poetry is still relevant and many believe it always will be.
It's unquestionable that William Blakes poems clearly demonstrates obvious links from the late 1700s to today's time. Before I wrote this speech I didn’t see the relevance or even importance of poetry, however, I now know poetry can help us understand and learn about different times in history and how we can relate to the topics and theme they were then written about.
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