The final stanza reads "what immortal hand or eye DARE frame thy fearful symmetry?" That is a very key distinction from the opening "COULD frame thy fearful symmetry?" The question changes from can God create the Tyger to why would God even want to create the Tyger?
@29arevz
4 жыл бұрын
2019 and still very informative! Thank you, very good teaching.
@zaidzainuddin3744
10 жыл бұрын
This guy is Red John!!!!!!!
@hashemieada4846
6 жыл бұрын
2018 and still laugh every time I see ur comment
@platipusduckbill
3 жыл бұрын
Christmas, 2020, still funny 😂
@rubenmeiri3157
2 жыл бұрын
The Mentalist!!!
@catgumart
16 жыл бұрын
I really think that people like yourself doing things like this contributes a great deal to society...thanks for the information and stimulation of thought.
@termikesmike
15 жыл бұрын
Mr Blake is a Lamb and a 'Mental Tyger'. It's amazing to find an artist so fierce and gentle. I've often wondered how his 'accent/ voice' would sound. Simple 'readings' of his Songs usually lack 'spirit'. The poet Ed Sanders (of the Fugs) has recorded some wonderful 'renditions' of Blake throughout his career. Allen Ginsberg tried and imo 'bombed'. Peter Brown recorded an entire album, well done yet he's somewhat disowned it. This is an enjoyable and informative lecture. thanks
@asparkles98
16 жыл бұрын
Very nice. Thanks for the short lecture, very succinct and well put!
@vinnywinnies
14 жыл бұрын
I've just finished reading the white tiger by aravind adiga; now i know why he chose the white tiger as the figuration for his book on the symmetries of India. I love poetry
@18jela89
15 жыл бұрын
a very interesting explanation of a poem!
@stacyhm
16 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your remark. In fact, the information on Blake, the Tiger and the Tower of London was taken from the history pages of the London Zoo site.
@f1freek321
15 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video, it really helped me a lot.
@rhystucker1673
11 жыл бұрын
Blake systematically rejected the traditional doctrine of Christianity. The point of The Tyger is to undermine the simplistic message behind his poem: The Lamb. On another level, the purpose of the archaic spelling of the tyger casts dispersion over whether it actually is a tiger. He wants the reader to draw a link between the tyger and the potential of the human imagination, portraying it as something to be simultaneously feared and admired.
@dcllaw677
5 жыл бұрын
I thought the tiger was a metaphor for the fallen Lucifer, Just my opinion I could be wrong
@robertloader9826
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting. In particular with relation to the line 'Could twist the sinews of thy heart'. The word 'Heart' is overlooked in most analyses of this poem, but if fits perfectly with a 'fall of Lucifer' interpretation.
@matteogualino2216
4 жыл бұрын
Blake was also very well into Milton's Paradise Lost, having illustrated it.
@hhhuman
16 жыл бұрын
eye within the eye: insight.......humblest obeisances....to err is not to be human, to be an error is to be human
@DiabloPlayer4life
15 жыл бұрын
Well, we talked about it on class. And it is rather obvious in a sense.. making several references (anvil, furnace etc.) to industrialism at that time. I mean..industrialism was rising in England and many people frightened it... hence the romanticism (escape to nature) in the beginning of the 19th century. And also the fact that the Tyger is in the forest of the night.. standing out from the surroundings... like man-made creations stand out in nature. The distinction between culture and nature.
@INTERPOLFAN17
13 жыл бұрын
it ends with what immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry
@LittleDragon2000
13 жыл бұрын
What happened to katiegreenaway? I'd love to see her art! P.S. The "Lamb" is clearly a reference to the Lamb of God, as well as to the gentle lamb in Blake's own poem, The Lamb. But that doesn't mean the tyger is evil - just fearful.
@andreenrico1531
2 жыл бұрын
don't have the full version of the video?
@Khempejjer
16 жыл бұрын
Thank you, your videos are really helpful.
@RayCee
13 жыл бұрын
@leewilk100 I totally agree and he was also taking it further - to represent India itself.
I'm not sure if u have heard of or watched the show but there is a show called the mentalist and the is one episode when the shows main serial killer tells this poem very ominously to a cop whose wife and daughter were killed by this serial killer but he doesn't say the whole poem he finishes after the first mentioning of symmetry. Do u know why or how that could pertain to the show?
@Jrs77777
6 ай бұрын
The symmetry line is a break in the pattern. It is jarring. The Tyger may be indicative of man after the fall, and so by ending here, you remove the second half of the poem which explains how man came to be this way. The first half just shows man already like this, which may be the character’s attempt at claiming he is fallen and was created like this, rather than acknowledging it was his own decisions that led him here. I haven’t seen it so this is my best guess.
@tensforme
12 жыл бұрын
Dear Sir, I enjoyed your brief discussion of William Blake's poem "Tiger" and particularly the sound of "eye" (long e) to rhyme with symmetry (long e). This is how Blake and his contemporaries would have pronounced these words? I must disagree on one point you make however regarding what Blake is "asking us to do." IF he's asking anything he's not asking us what the Tiger "represents" as you say but rather who (or what) created the Tiger: "What immortal hand or eye"? The Tiger is the artwork.
@alywastaken.
2 жыл бұрын
Before I was still born
@ondverg
16 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for opening my brain...I mean eyes! :-)
@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time
12 жыл бұрын
Nice vid! This is an invitation to see an artist theory on the physics of light and time! This theory is based on two postulates 1. Is that the quantum wave particle function Ψ represents the forward passage of time ∆E ∆t ≥ h/2π itself 2. Is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the w- function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual!
@turyaboy
11 жыл бұрын
A MUST for 'Blake Lovers' is the talk by Shri Mataji public programme 'Blake's Vision' here on YT!
@xNghtMRxEdgex
11 жыл бұрын
And i'm saying that it does represent evil in a way. Evil is just a word. A definition. And it can be represented as 1 of 2 parts of a "fearful symmetry". The Lamb and The Tyger are metaphores of how we normally see the world. I think is a criticism on religious point of view.
@Englishdosser86
11 жыл бұрын
I'm saying that it is neither evil nor a metaphor for evil. Have a look at Samdathi's post below.
the ending stanza is not exactly the same as the beginning. Its "what immortal had or eye DARE frame thy fearful symmetry." The word "dare" in that context is so significant. It's almost as if Blake challenges God, himself, with the purpose of his new creation.
@pierlooqup
15 жыл бұрын
could it be that the "symmetry" blake refers to is actually a hint to the lamb as the opposite yet complementary creature to the tiger itself
@adityaallam
2 жыл бұрын
Did he who made 'The Lamb' make Thee?
@cheapfeet
13 жыл бұрын
. . . rather, what kind of God would create seemingly polar opposites? Blake is really talking about the Nature of God, of Man . . . what is our true capacity? For love & violence? The Tyger is really a question of universal identity . . . & this tied in with Blake's mythology, his philosophies on the nature of sensual existence & the imagination . . . this is a very complex, almost scientific attempt at understanding the nature of God.
@wildwoodwabbit9243
4 жыл бұрын
The force which shapes is evolution (based on competition like capitalism). What the force most rewards is predatory ability (which is why we build gleaming war birds). That which has risen to the top of the evolutionary fray is the Anunnaki (whose war-like ways wise peoples seek to emulate)
Sir, could you please further explain the couplet "eye" and "simmetry"? Some people force "eye" into a rhyme, while some other force "simmetry". Please, which one is correct?
@empyblessing
14 жыл бұрын
thank you
@ericamartinen6527
11 жыл бұрын
how is something created with experience o.O being ferocious is one thing..it is a natural quality of the tiger....but experience??? experience comes with living for crying out loud!
@misMITU
15 жыл бұрын
I memorized this poem last night, its so beautiful!
@BrapMan
2 жыл бұрын
He ends the final verse with "DARE frame thy fearful symmetry" as he has moved on from his origional question of "who COULD do it", but yeah, not a bad glance at the poem, my dude
@stacyhm
15 жыл бұрын
You're not blocked yet because of your wonderful dragon--Blake was a marvelous graphics artists as well.. I'm not surprised you have communicted with Blake. I believe he thought he saw God looking in through the window when he was a child. Also I believe you're quite right on fearful. It is fearful not fearsome. Yu should post some of your W.B. inspired work. The invisible worm that flies in the night? But then it is invisible. At any rate, more art.
@asmodeus585
14 жыл бұрын
Lamb could also be a symbol of an ordinary man, as opposed to great tiger-like entrepreneurs, who dare to do anything to seize more money and power.
@pegcage
16 жыл бұрын
The Tyger in this poem, I believe, stands for evil. The same God Who made good, also made evil. This is the dilemma of Blake. It is interesting that he uses "the lamb" as a contrast. The lamb is also a symbol of Jesus Christ, (the sacrificial lamb) who died for the sins (evil) of the entire world. I do not know if this was Blake's intent, but it is interesting nonetheless.
@Dr.Jekyll_
12 жыл бұрын
i like to see you make a better explanation
@hammadahmed3139
3 жыл бұрын
Good sir
@danbit5
16 жыл бұрын
you dont want to see one get over the chicken wire when your in the zoo. safely say its as much use to you as a plane with a seatbelt.going down. great poem.
@thenakedthrall4034
6 жыл бұрын
danbit5 Yes
@DrJacquesCOULARDEAU
8 жыл бұрын
RIEN NEVER JAMAIS CHANGES, NOT EVEN LE CLIMATE MAIS DERRIÈRE LA GRILLE THERE IS A GARDEN - BEYOND THE FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER THERE IS LE FUTUR PASSÉ OF 2016 Lucretia LA NOTTE Jacques COULARDEAU THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience) By William Blake Tyger! Tyger! 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 sieze the fire? And what shoulder, & what art. Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & 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 watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? 1794
@GenHoratioBonaparte
12 жыл бұрын
Calling Blake the first British socialist Perhaps?... lol I was thinking the meaning behind the chains. Perhaps Blake is at awe yet disgusted that we are able to hold such power behind chains and the cages made by blacksmiths. So many times a few people are able to control so many but sometimes all hell breaks loose and we have a Revolution Viva La France!!!
@robertloader9826
4 жыл бұрын
'What immaartal hand or eeee' ?! I think not, he was born in Soho!!
@plenicepampers
10 жыл бұрын
Sir, I'm pretty sure the pronunciation of "eye" has been /ai/ since the Great Vowel Shift. You probably wanted to squeeze that in here in order to get a rhyme. The thing is,I think,that he didn't want to rhyme it. He was all about the yin-yang kind of stuff, the symmetry of the asymmetrical. What is really fascinating here is that the word "symmetrie" existed back then and he could in fact have rhymed "eye" with it. But he chose not to. What I think supports this claim nicely is the fact that the word we're talking about here is "symmetry" itself. It can't be a coincidence.
@billc1055
6 жыл бұрын
I initially thought "symmetrie" (pronounced: symmetr-eye) as well. But that is a good point you make about the idea that God has made both a lamb and a tiger; you can't get more asymmetric than that. . . . . but from a musical point of view it has to rhyme or it hurts my ears. . . . . maybe it's supposed to hurt, lol. . . . maybe Blake is taking a shot at God. It's a Billy Blake Blasphemy for sure.
@leolafon3455
5 жыл бұрын
I am really no specialist on the question, but I stumbled upon this comment from another youtube video about this poem which I thought to be interesting. kzitem.info/news/bejne/x46pz4ttel9el44&lc=Ugg2oFmq3Hlkg3gCoAEC.8IcfJwTY8sy8gWE9uKGuh5 Basically it says that in some parts of the UK 'eye' is/was pronounced 'ee'.
@dmitrinsmirnov
14 жыл бұрын
Interesting but one thing is wrong - you made a mistake reading the last line of the poem: DARE frame thy fearful symmetry... And are you sure that your pronunciation of EYE (like EEE) is possible?
@bakinblack1
14 жыл бұрын
thats debatable
@Elekias
16 жыл бұрын
... it stands for us ... the humans ... it stands for balance ... I know its strange but it reminds me Epicuroses Paradox -.-
@pozzi0
16 жыл бұрын
o really nice! mattia neri
@Englishdosser86
11 жыл бұрын
I'm saying that it doesn't represent evil.
@missouriaviator8871
9 жыл бұрын
Hey Elijah
@x3nstudios
3 жыл бұрын
If you are here, at 21/01/21 1:30PM UK Time, I know you.
@x3nstudios
3 жыл бұрын
I was talking to classmates in my school
@x3nstudios
3 жыл бұрын
English lesson -_-
@rubenmeiri3157
2 жыл бұрын
ok cool :)
@Notclaybird
13 жыл бұрын
the way you present the video is awkward, also the point you are making sounds strange because of the way you are telling it, but it has helped me in my research of this poem
@Englishdosser86
11 жыл бұрын
Look at Samdathi's comments on this page.
@Englishdosser86
16 жыл бұрын
The Tyger isn't evil.
@stepdecke22
15 жыл бұрын
interesting.
@Elekias
16 жыл бұрын
for more ... youtube:"The Riddle of Epicurus"
@pablolema5484
4 жыл бұрын
Veri gud video, espescialli i liked the part When william blake Saw de Tiger in the torre of londra recommend it!!
@leewilk100
13 жыл бұрын
This is a misunderstood reading . I'm sure that blake did not consider god like this . It's about revolution, and individual freedom and siezing power - hence the prometheus allusion, it represtentes the french revolution which as we know ended dissapointingly (for the romantics) in terror - and the tyger was often used as a metaphor for this in the british press. scholars ( see Alfred Kazin). Blake would have hated how some Christiand twist his genius to fit their own ideology..
@yukiomishima8031
11 жыл бұрын
Blind gatesmen dare thine seave the ire. trojan guardsmen. the axe, and seeing.
@danbit5
16 жыл бұрын
IN the forest? hint? think they run about india?
@xNghtMRxEdgex
11 жыл бұрын
Its a metaphor...
@unsealedvirus3
10 жыл бұрын
Yall pray.....
@xNghtMRxEdgex
11 жыл бұрын
I mean, is a fact that The Tyger isn't evil. But, not literally speaking, as a metaphor it represents evil. Its just a matter of semantics...
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