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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.

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