Imagery And Symbolism in William Blake’s The Tyger Essay -- William Bl

Imagery And Symbolism in William Blakes The TygerCan you give to the horse mightyness? Can you clothe its bonk with a rustling mane? Can you cause it to leap similar a locust?( concern 3919-20)William Blakes The Tyger is reminiscent of when God questioned Job rhetorically about his creations, many of them being fear several(prenominal) beasts such as the leviathan or the behemoth. Much like this speech from the old testament, The Tyger also uses a significant amount of imagery and symbolism which contributes to its spiritual aspects.There is a wealth of imagery in the first two lines alone. The poem begins Tyger Tyger eager bright In the forests of the night, The reader conceives in their mind the image of a tiger with a coat blazing like fire in the bowels of a dark forest. This creates a negative impression of the tiger, so some might say that the tiger is symbolic of evil. Some people may go even further to conclude that the tiger is a symbol of Satan. Perhaps mainly the peop le who derive their interpretation of hell from Dantes Inferno, or other works of literature that portray the devil as a predator, cloaked in flames residing in the darkness of hell. The same theatrical role of imagery and symbolism is used in the first two lines of the encourage stanza, where it says In what contradictory deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes?The images of distant deeps or skies again presents images of a realm of darkness, and one is reminded again of the tralatitious interpretation o...