Give a critical appriciation of the poem The Tyger
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Answer:
The poem “The Tyger” is the masterpiece of William Blake’s poetry. It is a poem of six four-line stanzas. The poem illustrates Blake’s excellence in craftsmanship and descriptive skill. This poem is a fine specimen of Blake’s command over the production of musical notes. Each poem of Blake is described to be ‘a jewel casket beautiful in itself’. The poem “The Tyger” is a magnificent example of his lyricism. In each line’ there is rhythm creating enchanting music
Explanation:
The poet fails to understand why God has created such a fearful creation. The creation of such an animal must have required a prodigious apparatus, otherwise, the muscles of the tiger’s heart or the deadly terror of the tiger’s brain would not have been created. The anvil, the furnace, the chains, and the hammers must have all been wonderful. Even the stars, the first creations of God were overtaken by grief and horror when they beheld the new creation.But the crux of the poem has been put in the stanza when the stanza threw down their spears: “Did he who made the lamb make thee?” These lines appear to be very puzzling. We can arrive at no conclusion. It may be interpreted that wrath and mercy unite at the same point where the ultimate reality of God is felt