Comparing The Lamb and The Tyger by William Blake Essay -- English Lit

Comparing The Lamb and The Tyger by William BlakeIn this essay I am going to analyse, compare and contrast two poems byWilliam Blake. They are called The Lamb and The Tyger. I will belooking at how Blake uses imagery, structure and form to create make and how the environment that Blake lived in affected the wayhe wrote his poems.In the late 18th century, the world was changing and developing into anew world kind of fast.Blake was born in London, the third of five children. Because of therelatively lower middle class status of his fathers line of work,Blake was raised in a state of non quite poverty, but he saw what lifecould really be like if he was down on his luck, and this he wouldexperience for the rest of his life.When he was nineteen the American Revolution happened and this causedgreat social unrest in the high and wealthy classes. Then, when he was32, the French Revolution occurred which signalled the end of themonarchy and aristocracy in France. This, not surprisingly, cau sed thesame area of society in Britain to fear that the same would happen intheir back yard.Blake was still writing at the start of the industrial Revolution,this time became the primary phase in which heavy machinery was usedin factories and mines. This created a feeling of great politicalupheaval and paranoia, shown by the appearance of the Luddites. wholly these events affected the way Blake wrote, in the way that hespoke about how the power of God can influence us, the world being a good-looking place, but man not being in harmony with it all. Where helived was an awful place, he lived next to a graveyard and aworkhouse. People died in the street and he witnessed it all, but hewas stil... ...bles as the one that preceded it. By thestream & and oer mead the missing v in over reduces the amount ofsyllables from two to one. This is so that the rhyming pattern will beeven (6,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,6) instead of (6,6,7,8,7,7,7,7,6,6), also mostof the rhymes in this poem are visual as well as oral this emphasizesthe poems rhymes and thus allowing the message to get through clearer.The language used in the Tyger is, in places, very similar to thatof the lamb. It uses alliteration in the phrase, burning capable toemphasize how striking the colour of this animals coat is.It also uses the old forms of address and it too has visual rhymes aswell as oral ones.But what it has that the lamb doesnt is, it repeats speech one afterthe other in the phrase Tyger, Tyger, this is used the same wayalliteration is to stress the metaphor.