Poetry

I read all the poems repeatedly and there were only two that I had any relation to,if that’s what you can call it. The one that I could somewhat understand only after reading it several times was “The Tyger” written by William Blake. The lines that stood out the most were

“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?”

To me this is referring to when the tiger came into being, and the poet’s questioning of how he who created the lamb, an animal so peaceful and unassuming; could have also created an animal so awe inspiring but also so frightening. The tiger is the polar opposite of the lamb. A tiger in the wild is definitely something to be feared, the beast could easily dispatch a man or its usual prey with ease. So why was the tiger created and by whom if not him then surely the other? This poem has to be talking about religion and the authors confusion as to why something  as seemingly vicious as the tiger would be dreamt up along with some of the less dangerous “creations”. Then again I suppose I could be way off.