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Original poem reprinted online here: "The Lamb" by William Blake Originally read: March 20, 2013 More information about the Poet:  William Blake As promised long ago, this poem is a companion piece to "The Tyger" by William Blake.  Here's my "analysis" of "The Tyger" here .   Why the quotes around analysis?  Because the poem has been explicated to death by Academia, and so, what is there to add to an analysis of this poem?  Instead I listed different types of analysis and how each image, symbol, line, theme, idea, etc. is looked through from the lens of certain critiques. For, "The Tyger"  I looked at the poem through: Marxist Criticism, Structuralist Criticism, and Atheist Criticism (not really a criticism, but looking at the poem through at an objective [not scientific] lens).  So, conveniently, I should look at this poem and the connections through opposite means. Note, the notes I wrote about "The Tyger" still apply an...

Original poem reprinted online here: "The Tyger" by William Blake Originally read: Long time ago, but reread on Writer's Almanac on February 17, 2013 More information about the Poet: William Blake I think this is a required poem to read.  What grade level?  Who knows.  In any case, I have different outlooks on this poem from when I first read it in high school, broke, college, broke, after college, broke.  I've heard some very interesting perspective about this poem, but to be honest, the poem lends itself to interpretation through the use of rhetorical questions (not the questions themselves, how they operate) and the images (which range from nature to allusive to industrial).  So I'm going to post down some of the interpretations I've heard an how they are argued.  Note two very important background information about this poem: 1) This poem is found in "The Song of Experience" which sets up a sense of time, distance, age to the poems in the collect...