Wednesday, April 11, 2012

6.) Poem

The Tyger: William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forest 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?

"What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" 
When Pi began to doubt the exsitence of God he would scream to the heavens "...THIS IS GODS CAT". Along with other thigns such as the sky being god's hat. When Blake says "immortal hand" in Pi's perspective it could be meaning the gods, he believed in many and could have been wondering which of his many gods had created Richard Parker. The same goes for the second quote, beng a commonly known fact that god created the lamb in the christian religion. These could be condemnations of gods as well, for how could he not question them in the situation he was in?

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