Blake's Tyger by https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG A poem written by William Blake in 1794 en-us 2013-03-15 10:01:30 UTC 2026-01-27 11:42:41 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d20uo2axdbh83k.cloudfront.net/20130315/a76ed8b6b8de65de0d0f9d25e689184c.jpg cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8102237 2013-03-15 10:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8102237 This what William Blake looked like. cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8110198 Josh Talks

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]]> 2013-03-15 14:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8110307 This is what London looked like in 1794. cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8110485 Vikram Nadkarni and Rory O'Connor

]]> 2013-03-15 14:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8110485 This is the house where William Blake used to live cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8110657 Charlie O'Brien

]]> 2013-03-15 14:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8110657 Tyger is spelled this way in the title of the poem because he wanted it to sound old fashioned and archaic. It also makes the beast sound exotic and alien-like.  cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8110821 Daniel Edwards

]]> 2013-03-15 14:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8110821 Willam Blake lived virtually all of his life in central London. The only place he could have seen a tiger was in the zoo at the Tower of London. cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8111343 Yasir Rahman

]]> 2013-03-15 14:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8111343 The first word of the last line is "Dare" instead of "Could". This creates the idea of the tiger being fearsome. cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8111523 George Jones

]]> 2013-03-15 14:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8111523 This poem has a sister poem called The Lamb. these poems are contrasting oppisites cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8111723 Nathan Pili

]]> 2013-03-15 14:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8111723 For his day job, William Blake worked as a painter and a print maker. cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8112252 Justin Kingsley-Smith

]]> 2013-03-15 14:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8112252 The words in the fourth verse paint a picture of the industrial revolution. He uses images of a blacksmith's tools. These suit the poem because a tiger's skin looks like flames. cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8112441 Adrian Taghavi, Jack Homewood & Josh Talks

]]> 2013-03-15 14:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8112441 The "he" in the poem refers to God cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8112766 Paddy Douglass

]]> 2013-03-15 14:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8112766 Powerful words like spears, tears, and hammer make the Tiger sound like a vicious killing machine cgoulding39 https://padlet.com/cgoulding39/BlakesTyger8CG/wish/8112913 joshua Tyrrell-Thrower

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