Poetry tyger

Question 1

Form of tyger

Answer 1

• “The Tyger” very regular form and meter, like a children’s rhyme
• it is 6 quatrains

Question 2

Title of tyger

Answer 2

Tyger

Question 3

Context of tyger

Answer 3

• Represents the industrial revolution- speaker is addressing Tyger (symbol/metaphor of industrial revolution.
• questions God for his work in the world, if he thinks it’s good as there’s loads of pain and violence
• interrogation- what kind of God made you

Question 4

Structure of tyger

Answer 4

• 6 stanzas
• Throughout the poem, a series of rhetorical questions to God and the reader.
• Last stanza, a repetition of the first.

Question 5

Language of tyger

Answer 5

Tone- creates confusion on the writer and changes to frustration as he questions the reader
Metaphor- Tyger is a symbol/metaphor of the industrial revolution.
Rhetorical question- Questioning gods creation and the reader.

Question 6

Message about power in tyger

Answer 6

Power is unpredictable/potentially dangerous, power of industrial revolution/God. Message : Criticises power of industrial revolution and God, hopeless.

Question 7

Techniques in tyger

Answer 7

Tone and quote, tone of awe and disgust: “ A sneer of cold command” – Negative adjective makes tone even more critical of dictator

Question 8

Form: in tyger

Answer 8

Sonnet, octave, setet

Question 9

Octave in tyger

Answer 9

Used to introduce problem of dictator, however also solution. Form gives her. Breaks rule dictator nature