/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12982585]

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 seize 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 water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

[Anonymous No.12982694]

Tyger Tyger, burning bright
In the gras of the AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.12982785]

The Tyger
who did it better, Nael or Blake?

[Anonymous No.12982861]

>>12982785
Tough one. They both approach it from very different perspectives and thus with very different goals. For Blake, in contrast to his piece's complementary poem "The Lamb", the tiger is a symbol of the cruelty and ruthlessness of the world, the vicious wrath and danger of it. He's using his poem to pose to the reader the question, how could the same god who created all of the beauty of this world be the same one to have created all of its atrocities and horrors? Nael sees things much differently. For him, the tiger is just as much a symbol of destruction and wrath as Blake, but unlike the latter, Nael views the beast and all of its deadly fury as a force of not just annihilation, but also liberation. The tiger, for Nael, is an avatar of wild, untameable, striped vengeance, the inherent raw power of nature over the stifling trifling restrictive mechanisms of civilization, and the inevitability of our return to a state of nature, entropy, either through the eventual death of our individual selves, the collapse of our civilizations, the burning out of our sun, the heatdeath of our universe, etc. I like them both for very different reasons.

[Anonymous No.12983130]

Gully Foyle is my name,
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.

[Anonymous No.12983137]

>>12983130
Is Gully Foyle a tiger?

[Anonymous No.12983156]

>>12983137
Interesting question that I'm not smart enough to answer. I always just seen him as an everyman who got fucked over.

[Anonymous No.12983169]

>>12983156
>>12983137
Indeed he is!

[Anonymous No.12983178]

>>12983169
Nice. He was meant to have maori style tattoos but I like to imagine him with kitty whiskers.

[Anonymous No.12983189]

>>12982585
that isnt how you pronounce symmetry
blake was a hack

[Anonymous No.12983212]

>>12983189
IT'S A SLANT RHYME YOU PUNK ASS BITCH BLAKE WAS A GENIUS AND A MODERN DAY PROPHET SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH

[Anonymous No.12983383]

>>12982785
Blake presents us with the problem of evil; Nael answers it.