The Lamb

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The Lamb The Tyger By William Blake

• Megan Thiele
• Heather Maddox
• Rachael Brucks

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Introduction

• William Blake was born on November 28, 1757 in
  London, England. He then died on August 12, 1827.
• He was inspired by religious visions. English
  poet, painter, engraver, and visionary. He was
  trained as an engraver by James Basire and
  afterward attended classes at the Royal Academy.
  He then published his own works on etchings.
  Throughout his life he survived on small
  commissions, never gaining much attention from
  the London art world. He had a profound influence
  on Romanticism as a literary movement.

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The Lamb By William Blake

• Little Lamb who made thee  Dost thou know who
  made theeGave thee life bid thee feed.By the
  stream o'er the meadGave thee clothing of
  delight,Softest clothing wooly brightGave thee
  such a tender voice,Making all the vales
  rejoice  Little Lamb who made thee  Dost thou
  know who made thee
• Little Lamb I'll tell thee,  Little Lamb I'll
  tell theeHe is called by thy name,For he calls
  himself a LambHe is meek he is mild,He
  became a little childI a child thou a
  lamb,We are called by his name.  Little Lamb
  God bless thee.  Little Lamb God bless thee.

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Paraphrase of The Lamb

• Little lamb that made me
• Dont you know who made me
• Gave me life and fed me,
• By the stream and in the field
• Gave me clothing I like,
• Softest clothing of wooly bright
• Gave me a soft tender voice,
• Making the land rejoice
• Little lamb who made me
• Dont you know who made me
• Little lamb Ill tell you,
• Little lamb Ill tell you
• He is called by name,
• For he calls himself a lamb
• He is patient and he is gentle,
• He became a little child
• I am the child and he is the lamb,
• For we are all the same.

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mb.htm
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Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who
made thee? Gave thee life, and bid thee feed,
By the stream and o'er the mead Gave thee
clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly,
bright Gave thee such a tender voice, Making
all the vales rejoice? Little Lamb, who made
thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Little Lamb,
I'll tell thee, Little Lamb, I'll tell thee. He
is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a
Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild He became a
little child. I a child, and thou a lamb, We
are called by His name. Little Lamb, God bless
thee! Little Lamb, God bless thee!
Rhyme Scheme
AA BB CC DD AA AA EF GG FE AA
rhymes "thee" with itself four times and mostly
sticks to single syllables, like "feed" and
"mead," "mild" and "child." Blake throws us only
the slightest of curveballs with the slant rhyme
between "name" and "Lamb."
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Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who
made thee? Gave thee life, and bid thee feed,
By the stream and o'er the mead Gave thee
clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly,
bright Gave thee such a tender voice, Making
all the vales rejoice? Little Lamb, who made
thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Little
Lamb, I'll tell thee, Little Lamb, I'll tell
thee. He is called by thy name, For He calls
Himself a Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild He
became a little child. I a child, and thou a
lamb, We are called by His name. Little Lamb,
God bless thee! Little Lamb, God bless thee!
The Lamb has two stanzas and both have 10
lines. The first and last two lines of each
stanza are repeated, like the chorus of the song.
These lines each have six beats and they serve as
bookends to the other six lines, which mainly
have seven beats.
Poem Structure
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Tone Mood of The Lamb

• William Blake conveys the soft tender voice of
  God talking to a little child of his. The little
  child asks if he is a child a God and God answers
  him kindly, portraying a very emotional soft
  hearted atmosphere.
• There is no irony about what the child asks and
  what God answers.

• There is no contradiction between the soft tone
  God uses to answer the childs question or
  between the meaning and the tone.
• William Blake intended to inspire and touch the
  reader in an emotional way

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Rhetorical Situation

• William Blake is making God the speaker of the
  poem. God is speaking to a little child trying to
  find faith.
• Blake uses this situation as if God is speaking
  to every person who reads this poem, making the
  reader the little child.

http//www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?
id172926
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Figurative Language

• William Blake uses personification in this poem
  to make the lamb and another lamb talk, but
  really the lamb is not speaking, it is God and
  a little child.

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Imagery of The Lamb

• William Blake uses a calm quite to portray the
  voice of God. He uses the sense of smell and
  touch to help create a quite peaceful atmosphere.
  
• He uses the lamb as a symbol of God. A lamb is
  a general symbol of God that helps sooth people
  when feared.

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Personal Reactions
I liked that the poem had a rhyme scheme that was
easy to follow. After reading the poem, it would
be hard not to be inspired. It gave me a new
perspective on life.
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Conclusion/Evaluation
William Blake uses words such as, rejoice and
delight to create a joyful and spirited mood. The
poem is peaceful. The strongest aspect of the
poem is that the first stanza ask a question and
the second stanza answers it. Blake uses an
object, a lamb, to discuss a much bigger thing,
God.
The Rhyme scheme is extremely easy to follow and
understand making it easy to interpret the poem.
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The Tyger

• By William Blake

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The Tyger

• Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of
  the night, What immortal hand or eye Could
  frame thy fearful symmetry?
• In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of
  thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What
  the hand dare sieze the fire?
• And what shoulder, what art. Could twist the
  sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to
  beat, What dread hand? what dread feet?

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• What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace
  was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp
• Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
• When the stars threw down their spears, And
  watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his
  work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
  
• Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of
  the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame
  thy fearful symmetry?

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Original Paraphrase

• Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of
  the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame
  thy fearful symmetry?
• In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of
  thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What
  the hand dare sieze the fire?
• And what shoulder, what art. Could twist the
  sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to
  beat, What dread hand? what dread feet?

• Tiger! Tiger! Youre so fierce.
• In the dark forest, who could have made a more
  fearful beast. What distant fire compares to the
  burning eye of the Tiger? Where did they come
• from? Did they come from hell?
• What blacksmith could make such art. Who could
  make a such hardheartedness beast that kills its
  prey?

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Original Paraphrase

• What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace
  was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp
• Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
• When the stars threw down their spears, And
  watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his
  work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
  
• Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of
  the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame
  thy fearful symmetry?

• What hammer or chain was used? Who made this
  fearsome beast? Did it derive from an evil hot
  place?
• When everything is done and tears are shed, Did
  he like his work? He who made such a fearsome
  tiger created the delicate lamb as well?
• Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright in the forest, Did
  God or human dare to make a fearful tiger?

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Sound
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of
the night, What immortal hand or eye Could
frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant
deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On
what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare
sieze the fire? And what shoulder, what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when
thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? what
dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil?
what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears, And
watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile
his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make
thee? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the
forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Alliteration Tiger, tiger, burning
bright In the forests of the night,  What
immortal hand or eye  Could frame thy fearful
symmetry? 
Anaphora What the hammer? what the
chain?  In what furnace was thy brain?  What
the anvil? What dread grasp  Dare its deadly
terrors clasp? 
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Poem Structure
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of
the night, What immortal hand or eye Could
frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant
deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On
what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare
sieze the fire? And what shoulder, what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when
thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? what
dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil?
what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears, And
watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile
his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make
thee? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the
forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
The 24- line poem has six quatrains. Each of the
quatrains contains two couplets. Most of the
lines contain seven syllables, which alternate
between stressed and unstressed. Also, there are
some eight- syllable lines, which create an extra
emphasis.
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DICTION

• The Lamb and The Tyger are informal, abstract,
  vague, and obsolete.
• Both poem creates vivid expressions to help you
  visualize the story.

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TONE MOOD

• The mood of the poem is fierce and questionable.
  It explains how fierce the tiger is, but it
  constantly questions who is the maker. The
  narrator wonders if the tiger was made by a human
  or some unknown source, like God. This kind of
  explains why tiger is spelled with a y instead
  of a i.

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Imagery and Symbolism

• The title of the poem, The Tyger, symbolizes the
  artistic creation of the beast.
• In line 7, the use of wings shows the creativity
  used to make the tiger. It was the power to
  dare to make the task of the tiger.
• The hammer, chain, and furnace used to make the
  tiger add onto to the fierceness of the tiger. It
  symbolizes the fierce, hardheartedness of the
  tiger.
• The Tyger helps you imagine power. Burning
  bright in the forest of the night, this tries to
  make you visualize a strong tiger.
• The poem asks how can a man that created a
  fragile lamb also create a fearsome tiger.

• http//www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/poets/p
  oems/tyger_ex.htm

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Rhetorical Situation

• An outside person is speaking. They are asking
  the same question, who created you, but in
  different forms. All of the question are being
  asked to the tiger or God. They want to know who
  created this fearsome beast.
• As a reader, we are listening to the speaker talk
  to the tiger and we hear his own thoughts

• http//www.pathguy.com/tyger.htm

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Personal Reactions
Blake uses an easy and catchy rhyme scheme to
help better understand the meaning of the poem.
The poem showed me that no one really knows what
their place in the world is going to be.
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Blake repeats the same question from the first
stanza in the last stanza to keep the reader
thinking. He doesnt use any metaphors in his
poem but he does use symbols, which lets the
reader try to figure the poem out.
Conclusion/Evaluation