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http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=tiger#/dpzthg
because the poem was about a tiger, that was either good or evil. look into it eyes and decide for yourself.
2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktwPGCR7Yw
- We have choosen this piece of music, because it really captures the atmosphere in the poem. Its giving us the idea of a prowling tiger.
3)In the first stansa, Balke asks who has created the Tiger, which is described as a frightening beauty. He then goes on to talk about the distant location of the creation of the tiger and refers to both Icarus and Prometheus who, were characters in greek mythology, defiant to the gods. The greek god Hefaistos was the God of crafts and fire and helped Prometheus steal the fire and give it to the humans. Blake refers to this god when he asks where the tigers brain was forged. The stars that throw down their spears in the 5th stansa are in reference to Zeus' characterizing lightning-stick. When the heavens are watered with their tears it is the gods being replaced with new gods. God?
What Blake is using all these greek mythology references for, is to create a feeling of the tiger being of ancient origin (older than Gods meddling with man). When Blake asks if he who made the lamb also made the tiger, it may not be a rhetorical question. If God is as described in 'the lamb', how could he possibly have created something as frightening and wild as the tiger? It's not that Blake belives in greek mythology, but it is somthing that existed before the bible and serves well to create the atmosphere he wants to contrast 'the lamb'.
4) The lamb is the good side of god, and the tiger is the bad side of god. its a contrast to eachtoghter. in the lamb, we are told that god calls himself a lamb, but in the tyger poem, gods benevolense is questioned.
-Mikael, Dennis(?) og Troels.
because the poem was about a tiger, that was either good or evil. look into it eyes and decide for yourself.
2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktwPGCR7Yw
- We have choosen this piece of music, because it really captures the atmosphere in the poem. Its giving us the idea of a prowling tiger.
3)In the first stansa, Balke asks who has created the Tiger, which is described as a frightening beauty. He then goes on to talk about the distant location of the creation of the tiger and refers to both Icarus and Prometheus who, were characters in greek mythology, defiant to the gods. The greek god Hefaistos was the God of crafts and fire and helped Prometheus steal the fire and give it to the humans. Blake refers to this god when he asks where the tigers brain was forged. The stars that throw down their spears in the 5th stansa are in reference to Zeus' characterizing lightning-stick. When the heavens are watered with their tears it is the gods being replaced with new gods. God?
What Blake is using all these greek mythology references for, is to create a feeling of the tiger being of ancient origin (older than Gods meddling with man). When Blake asks if he who made the lamb also made the tiger, it may not be a rhetorical question. If God is as described in 'the lamb', how could he possibly have created something as frightening and wild as the tiger? It's not that Blake belives in greek mythology, but it is somthing that existed before the bible and serves well to create the atmosphere he wants to contrast 'the lamb'.
4) The lamb is the good side of god, and the tiger is the bad side of god. its a contrast to eachtoghter. in the lamb, we are told that god calls himself a lamb, but in the tyger poem, gods benevolense is questioned.
-Mikael, Dennis(?) og Troels.
So the tiger is an evil creature???
ReplyDeleteAnd Blake is a pagan???