Thoughts on love, life, writing and friends.
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
More love the less I hate..
Don't just sit here n do what you want n Make me wait for you
I'm not ur fucking pep toy
Stupid
Get up and act whose bss
Or I'm leaving you
N I shouldn't have to tell you that
You too
Get off ur phone
We're not here four love
Enuf
Ur killing it
I'm going to make you pay
You don't know how to treat a lady!
Nowwwwwwww
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Sunday, 10 November 2013
Friday, 8 November 2013
The inconsistent symbols on plate forty-two in Songs of Innocence and of Experience are placed there to relate moral arguments. Given the grammatical errors of this plate, we can expect that Blake is relating a moral argument. In “The Tyger,” Blake spells the poem’s title and the subject’s name incorrectly. This is an intentional mistake to demonstrate how humans obscure the intended order of life. That is, just as Blake has made this error according to the natural system of proper English grammar, humans misrepresent the natural orders of existence. In fact, this is the reason why Blake presents other inconsistencies on plate forty-two in Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Blake’s questioning of the ‘Tyger’s’ natural creation rather than blatantly stating so reflects how man subverts the natural order of thinking, knowing and living. Secondly, the coy drawing of the ‘Tyger’ is not consistent with the text’s description of the subject as ‘burning bright in the fire of the night’ to demonstrate how societies paint pictures of truths that are errors in judgment, which generations following continue to believe and live by.
The ‘Tyger’ is a completely different case than the ‘Little Lamb’ because Blake is ambiguous about its natural creation in his poem “The Tyger,” and is inconsistent with the writing and artwork he presents on this subject. First, Blake does not assert that the ‘Tyger’ is created by God, like the ‘Little Lamb,’ but questions this. This suggests Blake’s uncertainty regarding this creature’s natural creation. For example, Blake writes, “What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry,” (Blake 84). However, Blake also gives numerous examples of the subject’s ‘fearful symmetry’ from its physical action to its features. Blake describes the ‘Tyger’ as ‘burning bright in the forests of the night,’ inciting ‘deadly terrors,’ and emphasizes the ‘fire of [its] eyes.’ Yet the pictorial image does not look fierce since the mouth is closed, concealing its piercing teeth, so that the reader does not sense the supposed terror of the ‘Tyger.’ Drawing a wide-mouthed roar would have made the image more intimidating because along with the imagined sound of this gesture, the reader could visualize the terror and fear the ‘Tyger’ inflicts on its prey. Even the choice of colors for the ‘Tyger’s’ body contributes to this inconsistency. The body is painted only half golden to symbolize ‘burning bright’ and the upper portion is painted various colors, including darker color tones, so the terror we associate with ‘burning’ and ‘bright’ colors has banished. The movement of the ‘Tyger’ shows patience, compassion and pleasantness because the subject is walking slowly along the grass. We do not see any interaction with its prey, and showing such detail would have projected a much fiercer image than is expressed in the actual picture.
Therefore, there is a natural plan set for Jesus Christ which entails experiencing life as a sheep and as a lamb would. It does not only constitute the lamb’s affliction or the sheep’s silence, but also the sheep’s peace and satisfaction, as well as the lamb’s transformation into a sheep. Therefore, the association between Jesus and these symbols represent the invaluable role these images play in the natural plan destined for Jesus.
The natural order does not end at creation but continues through Blake’s description of sheep and lambs in the writing and the artwork seen on plate five, in Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Blake’s description of peace and affliction is consistent with the contraries that are seen throughout his works. “For [the Shepherd] hears the lambs innocent call / And he hears the ewes tender reply / He is watchful while they are in peace / For they know when their Shepherd is nigh,” (Blake 47). The plate’s artwork enhances this image of peace as we see a calm, motionless flock of sheep, situated close by their Shepherd. Though the interaction between the sheep and the Shepherd is extremely emotional, nearly all the sheep do not make eye contact with the Shepherd. However, the two lambs rebel against the plan their master has devised for them: to flock along with the other sheep. The Shepherd’s harsh gaze upon the lambs foreshadows affliction through punishment, which leads to a sense of peace like the sheep. Therefore, this plate initially presents a contradiction about the lambs’ inclusion in natural creation, but actually shows that the lambs’ experience of peace and affliction is the natural order of creation.
The imagery of the ‘Little Lamb’ is the most obvious symbol representing the natural order of life. It is clearly stated that the ‘Little Lamb’ is made by Jesus Christ. Blake conveys this idea of creation by writing “Little Lamb who made thee / Dost thou know who made thee,” (Blake 50) and continues with “He is called by thy name, / For he calls himself a Lamb,” (Blake 50). In The Holy Bible (KJV), Jesus Christ is repeatedly referred to as “the Lamb of God,” so it is clear Blake is showing that the subject was ‘made’ by Jesus. We can assume this means creation by God since Jesus is the son of God. Thus we can see how the ‘Little Lamb’ is made by the natural order of creation.
Blake shows how Jesus Christ creates the subject who has the same name as the poem’s title. However, there are inconsistencies in his other works of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, including on plate seven, where the writing and artwork together do not convey a symmetrical analysis of the ‘sheep.’ This leads to the realization that the natural order of creation includes the experience of peace and affliction. As well, it is doubtful to Blake that Jesus creates the subject of the plate called “The Tyger.” This ambiguity between the ‘Tyger’ and its divine connection to Jesus Christ represents a clash in the natural system of creation, which can also be seen in the plate’s artwork. Blake’s drawing of the ‘Tyger’ does not parallel his description of the creature’s ‘fearful symmetry’ but looks passive and unthreatening. Consequently, it seems that a suitably drawn lion would be a more appropriate subject for this poem since a lion is a fearsome creature. Proverbs 30:30 states, “The lion which is strongest among beasts, / and turneth not away any,” shows this fearful image of the lion. The Holy Bible (KJV) not only describes the lion in the way Blake does the ‘Tyger,’ but parallels the lion to Jesus Christ, as is the ‘Lamb’ in Songs of Innocence and of Experience. By organizing his plates this way, Blake asserts that such animals as a lion and the ‘Little Lamb’ represent the natural order of created life, whereas the ‘Tyger’ represents perversions of this order by man.
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