William Blake's "The Tyger" Short Lecture

William Blakes "The Tyger" Short Lecture by John Stacy
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[katiegreenaway]

Glad you liked the dragon! It's just that Will B. & I are mates & of a single mind, so I thought I ought to tell you what he told me about what he was thinking when he wrote that. poem! Me & Mr Blake agree on most things, (school, vegetarianism) & have interests in common. Writing, art, good v evil, printing etc. It's the 'fearful' word that trip modern men up here. Different meaning. Don't be offended, I just know precisely what he meant. Have you blocked me? Katie x

[stacyhm]

You're not blocked yet because of your wonderful dragon--Blake was a marvelous graphics artists as well.. I'm not surprised you have communicted with Blake. I believe he thought he saw God looking in through the window when he was a child. Also I believe you're quite right on fearful. It is fearful not fearsome. Yu should post some of your W.B. inspired work. The invisible worm that flies in the night? But then it is invisible. At any rate, more art.

[asmodeus585]

Lamb could also be a symbol of an ordinary man, as opposed to great tiger-like entrepreneurs, who dare to do anything to seize more money and power.

[doddi13]

hi. i found your social and historical context very usful, so thank you. im currently analysing this poem, and i think that this poem is a clear example of blakes dislike towards the augustan style of logically working your way towards god. this poem is exprssing the universality and sheer range of gods abilty. the idea that this god can create something so delicate and pure as the lamb, and yet can also create something so ferocious and experienced as the tiger? what do you think?

[tensforme]

Dear Sir, I enjoyed your brief discussion of William Blake's poem "Tiger" and particularly the sound of "eye" (long e) to rhyme with symmetry (long e). This is how Blake and his contemporaries would have pronounced these words? I must disagree on one point you make however regarding what Blake is "asking us to do." IF he's asking anything he's not asking us what the Tiger "represents" as you say but rather who (or what) created the Tiger: "What immortal hand or eye"? The Tiger is the artwork.

[verykhan]

blake certainly felt himself a gentle and vulnerable as a man in an extremely cut-throat society that he never fully engaged with. to my mind he may be identifying the lamb with himself; he was from a poor and ideological family, and he died in poverty without ever having really left the station from where he came, so i might never have developed the confidence to meet life an equal footing.

[iampeeay01]

Thanks for sharing... a very informative video about WB.. :)

[TheJackbeeston]

"eye" and "symmetery" aren't meant to rhyme, Blake is making a point about the untameable nature of the tyger and the human imagination.

[n1ghtsaber]

the way you present the video is awkward, also the point you are making sounds strange because of the way you are telling it, but it has helped me in my research of this poem

[SapphireM]

@leewilk100 I totally agree and he was also taking it further - to represent India itself.

[LittleDragon2000]

What happened to katiegreenaway? I'd love to see her art!

P.S. The "Lamb" is clearly a reference to the Lamb of God, as well as to the gentle lamb in Blake's own poem, The Lamb. But that doesn't mean the tyger is evil - just fearful.

[duncangray2011]

a farm for man.

[leewilk100]

This is a misunderstood reading . I'm sure that blake did not consider god like this . It's about revolution, and individual freedom and siezing power - hence the prometheus allusion, it represtentes the french revolution which as we know ended dissapointingly (for the romantics) in terror - and the tyger was often used as a metaphor for this in the british press. scholars ( see Alfred Kazin).

Blake would have hated how some Christiand twist his genius to fit their own ideology..

[YAMANvlogs]

i just made a project on this poem! i love it! I posted my vid on youtube :)