"The Tyger" and "The Lamb" TWIST Comparison
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The Tyger by William Blake
Lesson Plans by Bridget Baudinet
In “The Tyger”, William Blake not only explores the coexistence of good and evil, but he also questions the source of their existence, asking how a single creator could create both beauty and horror. It includes powerful metaphors and religious and classical allusions.
Juxtaposition: Definition and Examples
Lesson Plans by Anna Warfield
Juxtaposition is a literary term describing the placement of things near one another. The "things" could be people, places, ideas, objects, moods, motifs, emotions, etc.
Storyboard Description
Poem analysis: The Tyger and The Lamb TWIST Comparison - Juxtaposition
Storyboard Text
- "The Tyger"
- T - Tone
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- W - Word Choice
- I - Imagery
- S - Style
- Who made you?
- Who made you?
- Who made you?
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- T - Theme
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- Awed and fearful: The speaker finds the tiger and its creator terrifying, but he is also impressed by their power
- fearful, fire, dare, twist, dread, terrors, spears, tears
- "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night..."
- The poem is a series of repeated questions posed in six regular stanzas. The questions intensify the emotion of the poem, but remain unanswered at the end of the poem.
- Who made me?
- Who made you?
- The inability to answer the speaker's question leads to a theme about humanity's inability to understand the origins of evil in our world.
- "The Lamb"
- Cheerful and comforting: The speaker describes the lamb's idyllic life and is confident that God is caring for the lamb
- lamb, delight, softest, bright, tender, rejoice, meek, mild, child, bless
- "Little Lamb...bid thee feed / By the stream and o'er the mead..."
- The poem contains two stanzas with simple language and short syllables. The first stanza asks a question and the second stanza answers it.
- Oh, God did. Got it.
- The poem's comforting words send a message that God loves and cares for all his creatures.
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