University of Alabama

HISTORY 11

Date:1-1-20

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The Tyger

1)What question is being asked in the first stanza?

2. Blake asks a lot of rhetorical questions (a question to which no answer is expected or either the answer to it is very obvious) in this poem. What do you think the purpose of these questions is?

3. Blake was also very concerned about the industrialization (the building of factories and machines to make work easier; Many people were against this because it would take up the land, children often had to work in them, and they created waste that was difficult to dispose of.) of England during this time. This poem could also have another meaning about that. Explain what images in the poem reflect the thoughts against industrialization. Your answer should be 2-3 sentences.

4. What is Blake asking at the end of the poem in line 20?

“The Lamb”