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William Blake

William Blake William Blake’s: The Tyger, London and the Little Girl Lost William Blake’s the Tyger is a reminiscent of when God questions Job rhetorically about his creations. The Tyger also uses a significant amount of imagery and symbolism, which contributes to its spiritual aspects. In the poem London, Blake is trying to dispel the myth of grandeur and glory. This associated with London and to show how ‘real’ people of London felt. London was seen and portrayed as a powerful city where the wealthy lived and socialized. However, Blake knew that London was really a dirty, depressing and poverty-stricken city filled with slums and the homeless and chronically sicks. To reveal the truth, Blake combines descriptions of people and places with the thoughts and emotions of the people. The poem “A Little Girl Lost,” from Songs of Experience is the story of a naturalistic love between the sexes told as a tragedy. Blake addresses this poem to an idealistic future age. Apparently, Blake felt animosity towards how people viewed love during his own time (Langridge). In the Tyger, there is a wealth of imagery in the first of two lines alone. The poem begins: “Tyger : Tyger: burning bright In the forest of the night,” The reader conceives in their mind the image of a tiger with a coat blazing like fire in the bowels of a dark forest. This creates a negative impression of the tiger, so some might say that the tiger is symbolic of evil. Some people may even go farther to conclude that the tiger is a symbol of Satan. The same type of imagery and symbolism is used in the first two lines of the second stanza. The image of fire in connection with the tiger is conceived again, this time within the eyes. The fire in a tigers eyes can be seen as a symbol of ferocity, and it takes no stretch of imagination to look upon Satan in the same way as well (Vine). In the poem London, Blake starts by combining the descriptions of the crying baby and man with the observation that people oppress their hopes and dreams, because they know that they will never be able to achieve their dreams. Another is in the third stanza when Blake describes the crying chimney sweep and then the “blackening church,” but is it really saying that the church does not want to dirty its hands by helping the soot-covered chimney sweep. Therefore, a “blackening church,” is one that helps the common, dirty people. Blake says, “every blackening church appalls,” showing that the aristocracy and those in positions of power did not want the church that they supported associating with common people. Throughout the poem, Blake uses fairly simple language punctuated with the occasional obscure word, but generally the more common words. Probably, to appeal to the common people who he was supporting through this poem (Margoliouth). In the first stanza of Little Girl Lost, Blake introduces the setting of the poem. It starts with ‘In the Age of Gold’ because he was addressing the poem to the ‘future age’ therefore beginning the poem in storytelling style. The tragedy begins in the fourth stanza where deception takes place. The two youths become weary, as their day spent together comes to a close. Realizing that it is almost evening and they soon must part, ‘they agree to meet, when the silent sleep.’ This lyrical poem is written in a distinctive form, excluding the introductory stanza. A rhyming scheme is incorporated throughout the entire poem. There is no distinct pattern in his work but he tends to only capatalize those words that should be emphasized. Blake also likes to use colons, especially in this poem. A missing period at the end of his poems is extremely conspicuous and questions the ending of this poem. In conclusion, the spiritual aspects of the Tyger are apparent and undeniable. Equally so is Blake’s use of symbolism and imagery which contributes to these. The Tyger just goes to show that literature need not be divinely inspired in order to be spiritually though provoking. All the things that happen in the poem London are not suprising, considering that Blake was born and lived in London poverty from 1757-1827. He was a republican and was against the monarchy and probably the aristocracy who supported them. It is said that Blake had his own version of Christianity. Knowing this in not suprising that he wrote such a poem as ‘London,’ because he was talking about things that he knew and understood. “The Little Girl Lost,” is a tragic love between a girl and a boy and mainly a girl and her father. Blake conveys this tragedy through a structural six stanza lyrical poem that included a setting, characters, a plot, a climax, and a downfall Bibliography:

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