Index Introduction"The Tiger": literary devicesConclusionIntroductionWilliam Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter and engraver. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is today considered a seminal figure in the history of poetry and the visual arts of the Romantic Age. He wrote a very interesting poem published in 1794 in London as part of the collection Songs of Experience framed as a series of questions. In summary, in the poem Blake questions the creator responsible for such a frightening creature as the tiger. "The Tyger" was written to express Blake's view of natural human ferocity through confrontation with a tiger in the jungle, an opposite representation of the innocence found in "The Lamb". Blake expresses his opinions on this whimsical creature; he is questioning the "great but deadly power of nature" through the use of different poetic devices to enhance the meaning of the poem. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay "The Tyger": Literary Devices "The Tyger" is six stanzas long, each stanza four lines long. Much of the poem follows the metrical pattern of the first line and can be scanned as cataleptic trochaic tetrameter. A number of lines, however, such as line four in the first stanza, fall within iambic tetrameter. “The Tyger” lacks narrative movement. The poet used many poetic devices in the first stanza, “Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright.” It is an alliteration, repetition and an apostrophe which created a musical quality in the poem as well as an assonance which repeats the vowel sound 'I' in "burning bright" is also in alliteration, the line means that the tiger who is in the forest burns like fire or in other words it looks like a yellow fire in the middle of the night, "the forest of the night" is a metaphor in which he compares the tiger to darkness and repression and there is another device that is used through images to make readers perceive things with their five senses. Blake used imagery to show God's unique creation such as "What immortal hand or eye", "Burned the fire of thy eyes?" and “In the Forests of Night.” “Could it frame your fearful symmetry” is an alliteration and a question symbolizes the existence of both good and evil. The use of alliteration, repetition, and assonance in this stanza draws the reader's attention through the repetition of a consonant sound such as "Burning bright" and a vowel sound to help enhance the meaning of the poem and develop the image created by the words, as well as to convey the poet's awe-inspiring and fear-inducing message. In the second stanza, first line, "In what depths or distant skies" is an allusion that has the meaning of hell or heaven, also there is alliteration in the words "distant depths", the speaker wonders in what depths O distant skies the tiger's fiery eyes were created. The poet uses allusions in this poem because it talks about God's creation of good and evil, which has to do with both the time period and the event. Usually, allusion can be used in poetry to easily communicate a message to readers. When a person reads an allusion, they will pick up on references to history, literary texts, and/or religion. These devices allow the poem to flow and have rhythm, making it easier to understand. In the second line, “Burned the fire of your eyes?” is a metaphor in which Blake compares the tiger's eyes to fire or something evil. «What wings does he dare to aspire to? What hand, dares to grasp the fire?' here the