Read the poem "The Tyger" by William Blake and answer the following questions. Any word you are unfamiliar with - look it up! I recommend that all answers be composed in a GoogleDoc and then copied & pasted into the comment box.
1. Compare and contrast Blake's description of a Tiger to Pi's description of Richard Parker (read p. 99, p. 108 & chp. 49). Your response should be at least two paragraphs.
2. How does the speaker of the poem find the tiger so awful and so great at the same time? How does the tiger make the speaker believe in the "divine creator" and make him feel so small?
3. Paraphrase the poem - put it into your own words. Your paraphrase should be the same length of the poem.
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some comparison between pis description and blakes description are, they are both bright orange tigers. Both of the tigers are fearful and mean when people are around them. Both of the tigers blake and pi describe seem to be calm tigers when people are not around them. Both of the tigers are wild and not tamed.
ReplyDeletePi describes his tiger as he reacts with people that come by the zool. blake describes his tiger to be in wild instead of the zoo where he is limited of space. Pi tells us that his dd feed a goat to the tiger. Pis tiger is around people more than blakes ttiger is. Pi’s tiger is used to people being around him so he knows how to react around them but blake's tiger does not how to react because he lives in the wild.
The speaker tells us that the tiger has burnt the fire of thine eyes. The speaker wants us to think that the tiger is dangerous. But at the same time the speaker tells how bright orange the tiger is and how pretty they look.
Some things that I would compare with the two tigers are, that they both are wild animals and are not tame. Even if one of them have been in a zoo for most of its life it still lives in the wild. They are wild animals and no one will trust them at all. You can not be with them otherwise they could kill you. They will always be wild and be killers. They both make people scared too. Everyone is scared of them because they are killers. No one can trust them because what the are capable of.
ReplyDeleteSome of the things that I have seen that are different are that one of them has spent most of its life in the zoo. The other one has been in the wild and has to find for himself for all of its life. The one that is in the zoo has always had its food brought to him. The one that has been in the zoo has also been around people a lot more than the one that that has lived in the wild.
He finds the tiger so awful because of what he is capable of and that he kills. He is scared of them and that is why they are awful. He finds them so cool because they kill and what they do. They are a masterpiece that had been created. Thats why they are so nice. There is nothing else like them. He feels so small because they are capable of killing him. They are more dominant than him so that makes him feel small.
Killing, killing from the tiger
It is what they do
chasing and killing
thats just a part of them
Watching and waiting
Stalking their prey
When the catch them off their game
It is time to make them pay
Eating is there favorite part
Crushing their bones apart
Eating all that juicy meat
They don't plan on being neat
When they get done
it is time to sleep
With a full belly
they can dream
Until they get hungry again
They will do what they usually do
stalking and watching
ready to kill
Killing, killing from the tiger
It is what they do
chasing and killing
thats just apart of them
1.These two things compare by fearing the tiger. The poem says “In the forest at night” meaning that the tiger is mysterious and creeps through the forest late at night. In the third stanza it talks about the physical descriptions of the tiger and how fearfully dangerous he is. Pi fears Richard Parker though these pages.
ReplyDeleteThey contrast because the poem talks about the tiger burning bright in the forest. Meaning he is the light of the jungle and nothing is above him. He changes his view of the tiger throughout the poem. He goes from fearful to powerful and I think that is what Pi is going to do throughout this book.
2.The speaker says things like “Burnt the fire of thine eyes” giving the tiger power to make him great. But then also says things like “Could frame thy fearful symmetry” saying how scary and fearful the tiger really is. The tiger makes him believe in this by saying “What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? It’s a reference to God saying how fearful God made the tiger.
1) The description Blake says is both positive and negative about the tiger. His description is of a magnificent creature that has unbelievable abilities. The poem is saying that the tiger has burning eyes that states down its prey. However he also says it can take your heart.
ReplyDeletePi's description is more of a creature that is helpless and dying. The way Pi describes Richard Parker is when he is drowning and trying to get to the boat, in that moment Pi is trying to help Richard Parker and doesn't see him as a threat. Then he realizes what he is doing and tries to scare him away from the boat but it's too late. So Pi is also saying positive and negative things about a tiger. The difference is just in what environment the tiger is in.
2) Blake does this by using very good language and words to describe the tiger. Not just giving one example but looking at all aspects of the tiger and what environment it's in. The tiger makes him believe in a divine creator by showing that man isn't at the top. That other creatures are just as powerful and deadly as man. By realizing this Blake feels small.
1.Compare and contrast Blake's description of a Tiger to Pi's description of Richard Parker (read p. 99, p. 108 & chp. 49). Your response should be at least two paragraphs.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning Richard Parker hid under the tarpaulin on the boat as if the tiger was scared of the unknown. Richard Parker is silent but he is powerful in many way. Just like danger or the bad in the world, it can't be seen or heard but it is so powerful. Richard Parker is effecting Pis life in the book, many may not think that it would be humanly possible to live on a boat with a tiger but Pi is doing just that. Just like danger or the bad in the world many people think that it is hard to live with yet everyone faces it in everyday life.
Blake and Pi both think that the power of the tiger is something only a divine creator could make. Pi knows the power of a Bengal tiger just like Blake knows how the divine creature is something you can not forget. Pi lives in fear while he is on the boat scared that Richard Parker will attack or kill him. He was taught growing up by his father that tigers are strong and when they are hungry they are out to kill. His father showed him this by throwing a lamb in a cage with a hungry tiger, and making Pi and his brother watch the tiger attack the lamb. Both William Blake and Pi know the power and grace of the Bengal tiger.
2. How does the speaker of the poem find the tiger so awful and so great at the same time? How does the tiger make the speaker believe in the "divine creator" and make him feel so small?
The speaker of the poem talks about the image of the tiger image of the tiger is living on forever. To me that could be an awful thing or a great thing. The image or memory of the tiger will live on forever and that could be a beautiful thing that you never want to forget or it could be something that you fear. To me the tiger represents the bad in the world. The speaker goes to show how powerful the tiger is, how large he is and how smart he is with every move he makes. Just like the bad in the world, it is powerful and makes a lasting impact on us. This makes the speaker believe in a divine creator because only a divine creator is capable of creating a creature with such a beauty and power. This makes the speaker feel so small compared to a creature so large and smart.
3. Tiger Tiger, orange and black,
In the darkness of the night;
What an everlasting image to hold,
Could frame the power and strength?
were you made in the heavens or hell?
To show people what you are made of?
Of something we never dreamed of.
What the hand, dare grab the fire?
And what a creature God has created,
Could twist the muscle of your heart?
And when your heart starts to beat again,
What feared hand? & what feared feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what planet was your brain?
So much power, so much strength,
Never let them clash.
When God made all creatures,
And gave everyone what they needed:
Did God smile at what he had made?
Did God make the tiger and the lamb?
Tiger Tiger, orange and black,
In the darkness of the night;
What an everlasting image to hold,
Could frame the power and strength?
1. I don't understand the poem much but this is what i get from it. The tiger, Richard Parker, is beautiful, yet deadly. It didn't kill Pi.
ReplyDelete2 Because it's deadly, but it is so haunting.
3, there is the tiger who is beautiful, yet so deadly.
bonus: the songs of experience in 1794.
In comparison, the tiger in Blake’s poem and Richard Parker are wild, dangerous, and ruthless killers. They are beautiful creatures of the wild and they are also carnivores. They rely on their sight. Each of the claws are sharp as a knife.
ReplyDeleteIn contrast, while Pi is on the lifeboat, Pi actually tried to tame Richard Parker. Richard Parker used to live in a zoo. He was fed by the zoo keepers, taken cared by the veterinarian, and had a clean place to live. The tiger in William Blake’s poem, the tiger roam in the darkness of the forest. He is a wild animal who is searching for food and shelter.
2. a) How can magnificent animal like a tiger who is powerful, beautiful to look at can be dangerous and giving fears to the people. The tiger was created by a creator who wanted the tiger to the represent beauty of the world yet have fear of the beautiful creature.
b.) The creator who created the tiger seem so small compare to the tiger he created. He made the animal as symbol of powerful, magnificent, beauty, fearless and torture. The animal became more powerful than the creator when people saw it. The animal represented the life of beauty.
The Tyger
By William Blake
Tiger, Tiger, the strength of the tiger.
Where he roams in an unknown territory.
Who was the creator of the magnificent creature?
Picture of a dangerous animal in his image.
Where did it all started?
Image of the power and the fearfulness.
What inspired the creator to create?
Touched by the creator to create the danger.
How strong can this animal be?
Does this animal have a heart?
When the heart begins to beat,
Who would this animal represent?
What kind of tools was he created with?
The creature has a brain.
Why was he created?
To create something of horror.
When the angels won the war
And they cried with joy:
The creator look at his fabulous work.
The same person who made the Lamb, made the animal to represent the fear.
Tiger Tiger the strength of the tiger,
Where he roams in an unknown territory:
Who was the creator of the magnificent creature?
It’s a picture of perfect that was created by his image.
Bonus -
Songs of Innocence. It was originally a complete work first printed in 1789.
The poem was about the Lamb.
some comparison between pis description and blakes description are, they are both bright orange tigers. Both of the tigers are fearful and mean when people are around them. Both of the tigers blake and pi describe seem to be calm tigers when people are not around them. Both of the tigers are wild and not tamed.
ReplyDeletePi describes his tiger as he reacts with people that come by the zool. blake describes his tiger to be in wild instead of the zoo where he is limited of space. Pi tells us that his dd feed a goat to the tiger. Pis tiger is around people more than blakes ttiger is. Pi’s tiger is used to people being around him so he knows how to react around them but blake's tiger does not how to react because he lives in the wild.
The speaker tells us that the tiger has burnt the fire of thine eyes. The speaker wants us to think that the tiger is dangerous. But at the same time the speaker tells how bright orange the tiger is and how pretty they look.
tiger tiger killing a lot
At night in the woods
what immortal teeth and claws
Scares people at night
Tiger hides in the woods
burnt the ice with thine eyes
on what jump does he aspire
what the paw in the fire
what shoulder in the body
could ruin its heart
when it started to beat
whose hands and feet
what the tool
what was he thinking
how tight the paw is
paw is dangerous
when it rained
with their sorrows
happy to see his work
same creator
tiger tiger killing a lot
At night in the woods
what immortal teeth and claws
1). I found the descriptions of the tigers in both the story and the poem to be pretty close. The poem hit me a curtin way....I felt as if the tiger was worshiped but feared more than everything. The jungle is a fierce place and the tiger is at the top of the food chain. clearly a tiger can kill a human. which i feel that this is what happened and it triggered an onslaught of anger. The people had to conquer their fear which resulted in the tiger dying.
ReplyDeleteAlthough i found pis description very pleasing but i could see a difference in his feelings toward the lion. He loved the lion and had been lucky enough to watch it mature. but was it more mature than him? Its a beautiful animal but it definitely is dangerous one. He knows first hand from this. Gods creation live a the life of which God set out for it...Only are we lucky enough to choose where we let our life takes us.
Only a person with a divine sense of creation could realize the beauty, but the horror of such an animal. He talks about a tiger that is gorgeous, one the hunts and stocks its prey. Yet if the prey is humans than the animal now switches from a glorious creature, to a terrifying beast. Humans never take in consideration that God created everything for a purpose. A tiger has a majestic life and this life could only be created by a divine person.
Oh the beauty of the rarely seen.
But if seen can never be unseen.
An animal with such grace and power.
Its a terrifying thing.
Which we must destroy.
What took so long to create.
Now gone in just a blink.
Can you really blame it.
Its just doing what it was made for.
Of course we can thats what we were made for.
To destroys what isn't ours.
We are Gods creation.
Not rarely seen.
Holding the fear of can be done.
With such grace and power missed used.
1. When the description of the Tyger is taking place, there are many things similar to when Pi describes RP (Richard Parker). In the poem, the author has such a define respect and fear for the Tyger, and talks the Tyger up. The author also talks about how powerful it is. Especially with how the Tyger can seize fire in his hands. With Richard Parker though, Pi describes him a little of the same and different. Although Pi's scenario is a little different than what the author of the poem is talking about.
ReplyDeleteWhen Pi describes Richard Parker, he doesn't just describe him. He takes every bit of knowledge, of years of watching him (in the zoo), and compiles everything he can to try and best describe him. Pi isn't just scared of Richard Parker, he has an underlying respect for him, just like the poem. Mostly, that respect is fear because Pi knows exactly what he is capable of. But Pi also goes up and beyond his limitations, and makes it to where the poem and Richard Parker become different. In the poem and book, both beasts are dangerous and mighty creatures. But in the poem, the Tyger is always the head, and the top dog. But in Pi's scenario, he takes one step up and decides that he will be the top, instead of Richard Parker. Now it doesn't mean Pi is scared, but he does that in order to survive.
2. The author talks about how the Tyger can see all of creation. Also, the Tyger has and immortal hand and eye. It also talks about how the Tiger can wield fire, and it has a burning in its eyes.