William Blake

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William Blake

• By Andrea Elmore
• Cara Hovan

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• At age 21 he became a professional engraver
• He used his visions of angels as inspirations
• Blake was influenced by the ideals of the French
  and American revolutions
• Songs of Innocence are poems that reflect the
  world of childhood
• The lack of public recognition sent him into
  depression

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The Lamb

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  Little Lamb, I'll tell thee,   Little Lamb,
I'll tell thee! He is calléd by thy name, For he
calls himself a Lamb. He is meek he is mild,
He became a little child. I a child thou a
lamb, We are calléd by his name.   Little Lamb,
God bless thee!   Little Lamb, God bless thee!
  Little Lamb, who made thee?   Dost thou know
who made thee? Gave thee life bid thee feed By
the stream o'er the mead Gave thee clothing of
delight, Softest clothing, wooly, bright Gave
thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales
rejoice?   Little Lamb, who made thee?   Dost
thou know who made thee?  
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vDG6dExraCLg
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The Tyger

• 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?
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• 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?     Tyger! Tyger! burning bright   In the
forests of the night,  What immortal hand or eye,
  Dare frame thy fearful symmetry
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vouUQcQ_5IeQ
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Repetition/Meter

• The Lamb vs. The Tyger
• Nursery Rhyme vs. Intense Drilling Beet
• Innocents vs. Darkness
• Meter a rhythm of accented and unaccented
  syllables which are organized into patterns
• Repetition the return of a word, phrase, stanza
  form, or effect in any form of literature

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Works Cited

• "Explanation The Lamb." EXPLORING Poetry. Online
  ed. Detroit Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center
  - Bronze. Gale. North Allegheny Senior High
  School. 11 May. 2009 lthttp//find.galegroup.com/sr
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• "Explanation The Tyger." EXPLORING Poetry.
  Online ed. Detroit Gale, 2003. Student Resource
  Center - Bronze. Gale. North Allegheny Senior
  High School. 11 May. 2009 lthttp//find.galegroup.c
  om/srcx/infomark.do?contentSetGSRCtyperetrieve
  tabIDT008prodIdSRC-3docIdEJ2114730191source
  galesrcprodSRCSuserGroupNamepl2552version1.
  0gt.
• "William Blake." Authors and Artists for Young
  Adults, Volume 47. Gale Group, 2003. Reproduced
  in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills,
  Mich. Gale, 2009. http//galenet.galegroup.com/se
  rvlet/BioRC