William_Blake3-14-1 英国文学史及选读课件.ppt

William Blake(1757 - 1827) English poet, artist and mystic mystic someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt 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 graspDare 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 brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeDare frame thy fearful symmetry? In the first verse, the author compares the fierceness of a tiger to a burning presence in dark forests. He wonders what immortal power could create such a fearful beast. In this verse we have a metaphor giving us a vision a skillful and powerful blacksmith creating the tiger’s beating heart awakening a powerful beast This verse continues the allusion to a creator, who, having made the fearsome beast, must confront with the sheer terror of a tiger’s nature. Did the tiger’s creator have to retrieve the tiger’s fearsome brain from an evil? Here the author, with beautiful rhetoric, describes a marvelous creation process likening starlight to a symbolic destructive process. The author wonders whether the creator of the fierce and predatory tiger could also make the docile, gentle lamb. He sees a conflict between the creation of heartless, burning predator and its potential victim, the lamb. Questions raised Did God create the fearsome along with the gentle, his Son along with the evil of Satan? Why does He allow the tiger to burn in the dark forest, while the lamb gambol