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" 'Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright, / in the forests of the night.'
Blake wrote that. Apparently the tiger was on fire. Maybe his tail got struck by lightning or something.
Flammable felines - what a weird subject for poetry." --Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
Blake means the vivid colour of the tiger - not that it is literally on fire!
Maybe its tail got roasted." --Qi Jing
Industrialization
Blake was one of the most noted gay poets and like them he saw the pastoral country side as idyllic and viewed industrialization as a blight.
The word "gay" (vandalism?) has an interwiki to "Gigantism." I have no idea what this meant to say originally. Thorns Among Our Leaves 23:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
If someone knows how to do references, David Erdmann's Prophet Against Empire will corroborate the French Revolution connection. CBR
Considering the two poems' connections and similarities, the articles for them ought to be more homogeneous. Especially on whether or not to include a copy of the text in the article. Currently, The Lamb does, and The Tyger does not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.230.161.164 ( talk) 23:34, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
They have a song called "Tiger, Tiger!" that has the lines "The stars burn bright/In the forest of night/But what mortal hands and eyes will I see there?"
The last bit is a definite reference, as is the title... but does anyone know what the song has to do with the poem aside from those two references? I'm trying to figure out a connection (huge fan of Slough Feg here) but I can't find it. 98.200.52.17 ( talk) 00:34, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
There's a spider-man story called Kraven's Last Hunt where the first and last verse is kind of...covered. Tyger is replaced with spyder. I was wondering why it wasn't linked in the article, this article is linked in Kraven's Last Hunt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hoopesk2 ( talk • contribs) 04:50, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
I cannot believe that I had to read the comments here, then go back and read the article searching for the link to the actual poem. Please remove your head from your arse and put at least the first verse here with a link"Click here to read more". ---anon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.29.63.16 ( talk) 20:03, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Not including the quote because some other wiki**** decided that poems is within it's scope is silly.
It's like not displaying a picture because wikicommons already has it or an even better example: not displaying a quote because wikiquotes has it.
I don't know how to do this but I'd like to initiate a vote for whether the poem should be included or not.
-- Leav ( talk) 09:16, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I totally agree the poem MUST be part of then entry on one and similar poems. When I went back to my printed Encyclopedia given to me by my Mother, I found poem. If it can include poems and their history, so should this one. The only reason I'm not adding it is because this should occur globally and not on a case by case basis. -- Bmoshier ( talk) 21:49, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
This is an encyclopedia article. We don't paste entire source works. Wikisource was made specifically to address this project-wide problem long ago. Green Cardamom ( talk) 03:06, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
This "article" is not written like one. It is an essay through and through. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.68.216.196 ( talk) 02:00, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Monologue is lengthy speech by a singal person . A charactora speaks a monologue the exprssion his or her private thought in a special topic . It is also call soliloque . it is used in drama or poem . Dramatic monologue haweever is not component in a play but a a type of lyric poem also used perfectly in pobert bronning my last dutchless —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.128.103.129 ( talk) 10:31, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Monologue is lengthy speech by a signal person . A character speaks a monologue the expression his or her private thought in a special topic. It is also call soliloquies. it is used in drama or poem . Dramatic monologue however is not component in a play but a a type of lyric poem also used perfectly in pobert bronning my last ductless —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.128.103.129 ( talk) 10:34, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Every analysis of this poem that I can find mentions the structure of it and the simple AABB rhyme scheme. But none of them seem to notice that the first and last verses don't follow this scheme. "symmetry", in the way it is usually pronounced, doesn't rhyme with "eye". "symmetry" is usually pronounced so that it rhymes with "tree". So the first and last verses really have an AABC rhyme scheme. Unless you read it with a Birmingham or Black Country accent. Then "symmetry" does rhyme with "eye". But why should Blake, a Londoner who hardly ever left London, write a poem that only rhymes when it's read in a Black Country accent? -- SteveCrook ( talk) 05:53, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
It amazes me how literary analysts (Ross is a linguistic theorist by training, but I guess that paper counts as poetics analysis) can write those interpretations whose points seem almost like free association, yet still manage to hold together. He has written comparable articles about a number of other poems and I'd be interested to know how they have been received by the literary community. 69.111.194.167 ( talk) 22:01, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
An editor removed my addition to this article, calling it "trivia". Well, that's unfair, since so many articles about works of art have similar sections. I'm editing it again. If you disagree with me, please give me good reasons. Casquilho ( talk) 20:24, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:The Tyger/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
There was been not critical censensus about Blake's sexuality. As a DEVOUT Christain he would have been unlikely to have described himself as "gay." |
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Looking at this while listening to In Our Time I noticed Blake's drawing of the beast is about as fearful as fat persian cat. then, lo! The point was brought up in the programme. A tall atle about the French Revolution was aired, but surely there is some scholarly discussion of why such a great artist drew a tiger that looks as aggressive as Tigger and half as intelligent? Stub Mandrel ( talk) 08:35, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
There aren't that many citations in the structure or analysis section so it reads a lot like original research. Just putting this down ChuckedGryphon ( talk) 05:50, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
Regarding the rhyme: rather than distorting "symmetry" to rhyme with the modern "eye", could in be that "eye" is supposed to be pronounced as the archaic " ee"? That would not only rhyme with symmetry, but with the "thee" in the other verse that people have been suggesting it should match as well. Are there any citable sources suggesting or discussing this? Iapetus ( talk) 09:40, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
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