英国文学之威廉姆布莱克——老虎WilliamBlakeandTheTyger解析.pptVIP

Fierceness and gentleness are contrasting qualities of the human mind. * * * This poem eulogizes man’s creativity and the image of the tiger which is an embodiment of the destructibility of the French Revolution or the revolutionary violence, expressing Blake’s attitude to the French Revolution, and revealing that the tiger’s fierceness and the lamb’s gentleness are also contrasting qualities of the human mind. The answer to Question 2: They are helpful to convey the poet’s feelings of perplexity and praise. * What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? 是怎样的铁锤？怎样的链子？ 在怎样的熔炉中炼成你的脑筋？ 是怎样的铁砧？怎样骇人的拳 敢于捉着这可怖的凶神？ * “grasp”： arm or hand. Metonymy is here employed to substitute abstract for concrete. The same thing happens to “terrors”, referring to the tiger. * “twist” ：bend sth into a particular shape, here referring to make or forge. * “sinews”: muscles. * “dread”: dreadful. Key words: brain. (an ironworker’s work and the repetition of “what”. ) Questions: 1. What does an ironworker’s work suggest? 2. Say the main idea of the quatrain.  When the stars threw down their spears, And water’d heart with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? 当群星纷纷抛下他们的刀枪， 用它们的眼泪润湿了穹苍， 他是否微笑着欣赏他的作品？ 他创造了你，也创造了羔羊？ * “stars”： It maybe allude to Satan or his fellow-angels . * “Did he smile his work to see?” ：After defeating Satan and his angels, God created the human world, including tiger and lamb. In “Genesis” there is a sentence “and God saw that it was good”. * “the Lamb” ：the symbol of innocence and simplicity.