English homework p5 Flashcards
(5 cards)
Structure - caesura - “Tyger, Tyger,”
The caesura creates a brisk pace reflecting the Tigers movement and the repetition refers to them praising the Tyger as a mythical being due to it being a powerful beast.
Language - rhetorical question - “In what distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes?”
The rhetorical question implies the creator might be satanic not God, as satan was a angel who was expelled from heaven.
Language - symbolism- “burnt the fire of thine eyes?”
This symbolises the fire of creation from which the tiger was created and it conjures images of fire and furnaces from the Industrial Revolution that Blake thought was a blight on the beauty of the land.
Language - semantic field - “What the hammer? What the chain, in what furnace was thy brain?”
It’s a semantic field of fire which both creates and destroys. This leads to the central of an image of the poets creation.
Language - juxtaposition + rhetorical question - “Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
The juxtaposition tells the speaker question won’t be answered.is incredulous that a God who would create a lamb could also want to create a deadly tiger. It reflects the capacity for good + evil within human beings and why would a benevolent God create such a deadly creature. However his question won’t be answered.
