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A poem that explores the mystery and beauty of a tiger's fearful symmetry, or perfect proportions. Blake asks questions about the creator of the tiger and the contrast between the tiger and the lamb.
- The Tyger
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Fearful Symmetry is a phrase from William Blake's poem "The Tyger" (Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? It has been used as the name of a number of other works:
What is ‘fearful symmetry’ in ‘The Tyger’? This phrase refers to the symmetrical physical structure of a tiger. Its body is designed in a manner that presents it as a ferocious creature. From the eyes to the paws, it is a creature born to feed on other creatures. The speaker is afraid by looking at this symmetry in the tiger.
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake is a 1947 book by Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye whose subject is the work of English poet and visual artist William Blake. The book has been hailed as one of the most important contributions to the study of William Blake and one of the first that embarked on the interpretation of ...
17 de may. de 2012 · Fearful symmetry, a study of William Blake. by. Frye, Northrop. Publication date. 1947. Topics. Blake, William, 1757-1827. Publisher. [Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press.
Either they have a meaning defined largely by their places in the system, or they are meaningless. Thus Blake compels his reader to learn the grammar of his visions. Frye in this book achieves substantial stature as student and teacher of the grammar of large-scale poetic vision.
Frye's first two books, Fearful Symmetry (1947) and Anatomy of Criticism (1957) set forth the influential literary principles upon which he continued to elaborate in his numerous later works....
