综合教室B-Willaim Blake.ppt

Willaim Blake “Tyger” “The Sick Rose” Outline William Blake “The Sick Rose” “Tyger” (a companion of the innocent The Lamb). William Blake an English writer, poet, and illustrator of the Romantic period; Had visions of angels as a child; 1787 ? the technique of illuminated writing, or relief-etching. Songs of Innocence (1789) 1797 –Songs of Innocence and of Experience (the two Contrary States of the Human Soul. ) Image source: /lshauser2/wmblake.html Songs of Innocence and of Experience Both innocence and experience are necessary states in the development of the human spirit. We are all born innocents, but when we begin to recognize evil or wrong, and are inevitably tempted by it, we pass into a state of experience. Higher Innocence: with childlike trust and vision. See clips “The Sick Rose” 1. What tone(s) can you find in this poem? 2. Are there images which are ironic? 3. And sound effects? “The Sick Rose” O rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. (spondee? dactyl? Trochee?) THE TYGER ?What sound effects do you find in this poem? Why are there so many unanswered questions?  What parts of the tiger the focuses of the speaker’s attention?? THE TYGER ?Tiger, tiger, 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 seize the fire? And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And, when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet? ? THE TYGER (2) 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