The Tyger

[sol72us@...]

"tyger! tyger! burning bright
in the forests of the night,
what immortal hand or eye
could frame thy fearful symmetry?..."

from,
the tyger
songs of experience
william blake, 1794

"..the tyger is the face of the creation, marvelous and ambiguous; he
is not evil. when blake cries, in the most moving single expression
in his work, he does not find the thought abhorrent. but he does not
answer the question; he keeps it as one, where a religious man would
answer it consolingly. never is he more heretical than in this most
famous of his poems, where he glories in the hammer and the fire out
of which are struck the "deadly terrors" of the tyger. blake does
not believe in a war between good and evil; he sees only the creative
tension presented by the struggle of man to resolve the
contraries...blake was a man who had all the contraries of human
existence in his hands, and he never forgot that it is the function
of man to resolve them."

from the intoduction of:
"the portable blake"
selected and arranged with an introduction by
alfred kazin
penguin books, 1946

[waterflame5]

this reminds me of the terrible love stream.

always felt bad about not posting the whole
poem, so here is a link to it...one of my
"all time" favorite poems...(originally posted
in response to a crop glyph.) pat

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~tupilk/tyger.html


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> "tyger! tyger! burning bright
> in the forests of the night,
> what immortal hand or eye
> could frame thy fearful symmetry?..."
>
> from,
> the tyger
> songs of experience
> william blake, 1794
>
> "..the tyger is the face of the creation, marvelous and ambiguous;
he
> is not evil. when blake cries, in the most moving single
expression
> in his work, he does not find the thought abhorrent. but he does
not
> answer the question; he keeps it as one, where a religious man
would
> answer it consolingly. never is he more heretical than in this
most
> famous of his poems, where he glories in the hammer and the fire
out
> of which are struck the "deadly terrors" of the tyger. blake does
> not believe in a war between good and evil; he sees only the
creative
> tension presented by the struggle of man to resolve the
> contraries...blake was a man who had all the contraries of human
> existence in his hands, and he never forgot that it is the function
> of man to resolve them."
>
> from the intoduction of:
> "the portable blake"
> selected and arranged with an introduction by
> alfred kazin
> penguin books, 1946

[waterflame5]

i apologize, i didn't mean to implicate
any bad tiger vibes on anybody. so i
write again in hopes of making this more
clear. a line in this poem,

"when the stars threw down their spears
and water'd heaven with their tears:
did he smile his work to see?
did he who made the lamb make thee?"

this is a wonderful example of
someone who grasped this concept of
"terrible love"; lambs and tigers,
what contrast there. a gnostic bridge
of sorts. admiringly, pat

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> this reminds me of the terrible love stream.
> http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~tupilk/tyger.html
>
> --- in asc2k@yahoogroups.com (/group/asc2k/post?postid=xvmxvgzvwjgmceolsmsg7i4ecvgetcx-kf7_udel0c0okxrehi_1zkbxfufcwjtblg6vhi9fcvufj6h5qw ), sol72us@y... wrote:
> > blake does
> > not believe in a war between good and evil;
> > he sees only the creative tension presented
> > by the struggle of man to resolve the
> > contraries...blake was a man who had all
> > the contraries of human existence in his hands,
> > and he never forgot that it is the function
> > of man to resolve them."
> >
> > from the intoduction of:
> > "the portable blake"
> > selected and arranged with an introduction by
> > alfred kazin
> > penguin books, 1946