The Tiger 诗评课件.ppt

The Tiger;William Blake (1757-1827);Biography;Time background;Blake’s poetry;Writing style;Point of view;His Positions in English Literature;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? 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 waterd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee? Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?; ;In the third stanza we have a metaphor giving us a vision a skillful and powerful blacksmith creating the tigers beating heart awakening a powerful beast. The phrase “...twists the sinews of thy heart is also an allusion to a hardheartedness that a beast of prey must have towards the creatures it kills. In the fourth stanza continues the allusion(暗指) to a creator, who, having made the fearsome beast, must confront with the sheer terror of a tigers nature. Did the tigers creator have to retrieve the tigers fearsome brain from an evil, hot place? ;In the fifth stanza, 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(温驯的), gentle lamb. He sees a conflict between the creation of heartless, burning predator and its potential victim, the lamb. The lamb allusion could also be Christ, who is referred to the Lamb of God, which lends a spiritual connotation: Did God, who made