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THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience) By William Blake Introduction The Tyger is a poem by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. It is one of Blakes best known and most analyzed poems. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (2003) calls it the most anthologized poem in English.“ Most modern anthologies maintain Blakes choice of the archaic spelling tyger. It was already slightly archaicwhen he wrote the poem, he spelled it as tiger elsewhere,and many of his poetic effects depended on subtle differences of punctuation and of spelling.Thus, his choice of tyger has usually been interpreted as being for effect, perhaps to render an exotic or alien quality of the beast, or because its not really about a tiger at all, but a metaphor. The Tyger is the sister poem to The Lamb (from Songs of Innocence). The Lamb is a reflection on similar ideas from a different perspective, but it focuses more on goodness than evil. William Blake William Blake (1757-1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th- century. Misunderstanding shadowed his career as a writer and artist and it was left to later generations to recognize his importance. Blake was born in London, where he spent most of his life. His father was a successful London hosier who encouraged Blakes artistic talents. Blake was first educated at home, chiefly by his mother. In 1767 he was sent to Henry Pars drawing school. Blake has recorded that from his early years, he experienced visions of angels and ghostly monks and that he saw and conversed with the angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary, and various historical figures. At the age of 14 Blake was apprenticed for seven years to the engraver James Basire. Gothic art and architecture influenced him deeply. I