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the tyger
Title: the tyger
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 690 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
the tyger
Does god create both gentle and fearful creatures? If he does what right does he have?
Both of these rhetorical questions are asked by William Blake in his poem "The Tyger."
The poem takes the reader on a journey of faith, questioning god and his nature. The
poem completes a cycle of questioning the creator of the tyger, discussing how it could
have been created, and then returns to questioning the creator again. Both questions
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…showed last 75 words of 690 total…By switching his rhythm from trochaic to iambic,
Blake shows the two possible natures of god, or of the two creators. By using couplets he
emphasizes the dichotomy of the poem. By using poetic devices such as euphony,
cacophony, assonance, and alliteration he can further develop his question about the
nature of god, gentle, or harsh. His rhetorical questions are left unanswered. By doing this
he leaves his readers wondering, "Is there really an answer?"
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