The Tyger
The animal the poem is about?
What is a tiger?
This repeated nursery-rhyme-like question is central to The Lamb.
What is “Little Lamb ...”?
Romanticism emphasized ... over reason.
What is emotion?
The year Blake was born
What is 1757?
Language that appeals to the senses and creates pictures in the reader’s mind.
What is imagery?
What nature in The Tyger is shown as
What is dangerous, wild and powerful?
The Lamb is associated with this religious figure in Christian symbolism.
Who is Jesus Christ?
Romanticism reacted against this earlier movement that valued reason and science.
What is the Enlightenment?
The age that William Blake died
What is 69 years?
The overall atmosphere or feeling in a piece of writing.
What is mood?
The word does Blake uses to describe the Tyger’s “symmetry”?
What is fearful?
Qualities the lamb is described with in contrast to the Tyger’s fire
What is soft, pure, gentle, innocent and nurturing?
The Tyger shows nature as dangerous. The Lamb shows nature as ...?
What is gentle?
The country William Blake was born in
What is England?
When human traits are given to an object, animal, or idea.
What is personification?
Blake compares the tiger’s creation to this fiery craft
What is blacksmithing?
The point of view in wich the lamb is told
What is a child's point of view?
The coexistence of the Tyger and the Lamb reflects Romantic exploration of these opposing states.
What are innocence and experience?
William Blakes occupations (name at least three)
What is author, painter, printmaker, poet, engraver and visionary?
Talking to an absent person, an object, or even a dead person as if they were present.
What is apostrophe?
The Tyger shows a Romantic fascination with this: something both terrifying and beautiful.
What is the sublime?
The line “He is meek, and He is mild” reflects this Romantic value.
What is finding the sublime in gentleness?
Romantic poems often ask questions but do not give this.
What are clear answers?
Blake is often associated with this literary era.
What is (pre-)Romanticism?
An exaggeration used for emphasis or vivid effect.
What is hyperbole?