The Tyger (B)

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Matric English (Poetry) Mind Map on The Tyger (B), created by field.sophie on 09/10/2014.
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Mind Map by field.sophie, updated more than 1 year ago
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The Tyger (B)
  1. Each subsequent stanza contains further questions
    1. All refining the first original question
      1. Each string of questions contribute to single, central idea
      2. Form
        1. 6 quatrains in rhymed couplets
          1. Regular, rhythmic couplets
            1. Hammering beat
              1. Suggests creator as blacksmith
              2. Simple, neat proportions
                1. Perfectly suit regular structure
              3. Opening question
                1. Single dramatic gesture of poem
                  1. Each subsequent stanza elaborated on it
                2. Repetition of "dare" replacing "could"
                  1. Aspiration, (subtle) challenging, willfulness
                  2. Stanza 5
                    1. Reference to lamb
                      1. Lamb & tiger have same creator
                        1. What does this mean?
                        2. Blake's 'The Lamb'
                          1. Child's innocent faith in a good-natured universe
                      2. Consists of unanswered questions
                        1. Poet leaves us in awe of God's power & questions of divine will
                        2. Sense of urgency as poem progresses
                          1. "What the hammer? what the chain?" (13)
                            1. "What the anvil? what dread grasp" (15)
                            2. Poetic devices:
                              1. Metaphor
                                1. Blacksmith metaphor for God
                                  1. Tiger metaphor for capacity for evil in world
                                    1. Lamb metaphor for goodness & purity in world
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