Thursday, July 18, 2019
Comparison and Contrast of Two Poems Essay
William Blake’s poems entitled â€Å"The Tyger†and â€Å"The Lamb†are depictions of human self. The narrators in these poems described their characterization through the illustration of the lamb and the tiger. There are similarities and differences between these two poems in terms of theme, tone, and literary images. By reading these poems, readers would recognize the braveness of the tiger and the calmness of the lamb. Through this, it can be said that these poems are representations of emotions and intentions of the author and narrators in the poems.            In the poem â€Å"The Tyger,†the narrator already established the burning fire of the tyger’s character in the first stanza. The first line of the poem characterized the persona into a mortal hero because of the use of words and exclamation marks. In the second stanza, ironies of different literary images started to emerge. Fire and sky, wings and hands are some of the ironies that exist throughout the poem. It shows that fire and sky are interrelated concepts with the use of hands and wings to reach its aspects and sense. In the third stanza, humanistic point of view developed. From natural abstract of nature, animal body parts began to unravel as a way of showing the tyger’s being. The second and third stanzas are related to one another because these means that nature and animals are connected and cannot live without each other. The fourth stanza discussed the different threats against the tiger. Chains and hammers are depicted to be the armor against the illogical braveness of the tiger. Its terror characterization showed that humans are aloof with it. They could not able to live with the tiger that is why they were chained and hammered. The fifth stanza symbolizes the resurrection of the tiger. Once he died from the hands of chains and hammers, the sky will comfort him and give him a new life again. It was seen that once an animal died, it will still conceive a new form of life as it emerge into the nature’s womb. At the end of the poem, the tyger will live through its burning fire. It will always live at the heart of the forest by way of perceiving the eye of â€Å"symmetry.†           On the other hand, Blake’s â€Å"The Lamb†is a representation of lamb’s beauty and keenness. She was depicted as a girl – a little girl who seeks love and comfort from within. This little lamb has simple joys in her heart. He wanted to have something to eat to be able to survive. She just wanted to have comfortable shelter to nurture her self from her surroundings and environment. She is happy and contented with what she has for she is young. The author used two stanzas to illustrate the persona of the poem. It means that simplicity of the character lies within her physical and emotional being.            In the first stanza, the narrator discussed how the little lamb portrayed her self in beauty and comfort. The narrator also showed how people used the lamb’s fur for their daily lives especially their clothing.  This is how the lamb works for that is why she has simple happiness because she knows that she would become a big help to everyone. In the second stanza, showed how the persona of the poem loved and admired the lamb. The narrator wanted to tell all the people to be mild and gentle towards the lamb because she is a fragile one. The persona relates herself like a lamb that is unique, keen, happy, and contented being despite of everything that she experienced in life. At the end of the poem, the persona said â€Å"God Bless†to the lamb. It means that she must take care of her self for everything she does throughout her lifetime and beyond.             Aside from the lamb and the tyger’s being animals, the similarity with them is their attachment to nature. Nature always becomes their comfort place to live and ponder. Another similarity is the way humans thought towards and against them. People look at them as an object of economic power and raw materials. They could not look at these animals as part of the ecosystem that helps us to become what we are right now in terms of ecological perspectives. In terms of theme, these two poems are similar. They are both illustration of animal oppression and discrimination. These poems are created to express how animals think of their selves and their use in the society.            On the other way around, the poem â€Å"The Tyger†is more on loud images rather than the poem â€Å"The Lamb.†Even if they both express the essence and meaning of animal oppression, the poem â€Å"The Tyger†was illustrated in a direct and frank portrayal unlike the poem â€Å"The Lamb.†This poem showed indirect attack towards the issues that it wanted to discuss. â€Å"The Tyger†also used abundant literary images to show the roaring character of the tyger. In â€Å"The Lamb,†the author did not use many literary images because he illustrated the persona as a child who has limited knowledge and learning towards the real intuition of the lamb.            Based on the elaboration of the whole poems in this paper, it was seen that â€Å"The Tyger†and â€Å"The Lamb†have differences and similarities based on the literal and logical perspective. It was also seen that the author made different kind of attack from one point to the other. The target audience for the poem â€Å"The Tyger†is mainly for those who have enough vocabularies to understand the meanings of the words while the poem â€Å"The Lamb†is for children who have simple words to acquire. However, they can be seen as children and adult poems if they are entitled to unleash the essence and persona of the animals in the poems. Bibliography Blake, W. (2005). â€Å"The Lamb†22 March 2008. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/181.html Blake, W. (1794).â€Å"The Tyger†22 March 2008. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/tyger.html
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