How do the sound effects in William Blake's poem "The Tyger" help to contribute to the theme of the poem?

William Blake wrote “The Tyger” 1794 and published it in a book of poetry Songs of Experience. The language of the poem makes the it easy to read; however, the poem is steeped in rhetorical questions that are asked but not answered.

The poem has both a literal and figurative interpretation. Summary The poem consists of six quatrains. The poet began and ended his poem with the same stanza except for changing one word—could to dare.

There is really no story to the poem. There are thirteen questions that are asked within the poem which speak to the tiger. Each stanza focuses on a different aspect of the question presented in the first stanza. With the use of apostrophes, the poem directly addresses an unseen force [God] that shaped the world.

The tiger seems to be symbolic of evil to the poet.

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

What are the questions ask in each stanza?

1st stanza

What magnificent hand made you, Tiger?

2nd stanza

Where were you made?

3rd stanza

How were you made?

4th stanza

What devices were used to create you?

5th stanza

What was the reaction of the deity that made you? Is the God who made the tiger the same one that made the lamb?

6th stanza [a repetition of the first question with a stronger inference]

Why would this deity risk making something like you, Tiger?

Blake questions the God who would create a world that has both evil and good [lamb]. He further wonders why would he do this, and what is the purpose of the evil in the world. Is God happy that he created such a fiery, terrifying creature?

 Poetic devices

Through the use of poetic devices, Blake adds to the meaning of his poem. The sound effects of the poem add to the its rhythm and emphasize the question of good versus evil as the theme of the poem.

In the stanzas, the poem uses two couplets per verse. The rhyme scheme in each of the verses is AABB. This embellishes the idea that there are two opposing ideas in the poem: evil and good.

When read aloud, the poem sounds like a chant. The alliteration adds to this rhythmic beat. The auditory aspect of the poem is enhanced by the repetition of the consonant sounds:

Burning bright; frame thy fearful; distant deeps; began to beat; what dread grasp/Dare its deadly; and stars, spears

He further uses the effect of repetition to add to the chant-like quality of the poem.

Tiger, tiger; what the hand; what immortal hand; what dread hand; The poem’s visual images create pictures in the mind: The tiger burning brightly.

• During the creation, the hand of God looked down and formed this beautiful but fearful creature.


• The creator gained the eyes for the tiger from the sky or possibly the stars.


• What kind of creator would form the tiger’s muscles, paws, and feet and for what purpose?


• Blake makes the reader compare the gentle lamb to the fearsome tiger with its beauty but ferocious spirit.

The poet is in awe of the symmetrical, dangerous creature. In his awe of the creator, Blake wonders why he would create both good and evil in the world. The poem has no answers to the questions that he asks, just the implication of wonder at the choices that the deity made.

Implicit thesis help? A personal narrative essay in which I must show an argument/moral where inaction is the best way to deal with a...

It is difficult to distinguish between personal narrative
and narrative essay except that when tagging "essay" on the back it implies that the
piece has direction from beginning to end.  I've done a lot of personal writing.  My
best advice is to come up with a time in your life when you had a problem, you did
nothing (or very little) and the problem either resolved itself, or the answer became
clear because you waited.  I don't know if your recent experience is the one you want to
use.  You have not seen the results of the entire thing
yet.

As far as writing the piece goes, I'll tell you what I
tend to do.  I like to write my first draft of such essays in the form of a letter
(sometimes I actually open up my email and really write something to someone).  This
helps me find my voice.  I know it is me when I'm just writing a
casual letter to a friend.  I used the word "draft" but what this step really is, is
brainstorming.  I work best when all of my ideas are out and on paper.  Do this first,
then walk away from it for at least a day.

Re-read your
first attempt.  First of all, is there a clear movement in the piece?  (This is key.) 
Does it have a decided beginning, middle and end?  At the end, do you feel a sense of
resolution?  If there is no resolution to the problem, is there at least a resolute
lesson that was learned?  The resolution, in this case, is going to end up becoming your
implicit thesis.  You are not going to state from the outset what you hope to accomplish
by the end, but something will be accomplished through the simple
act of telling a story.  Does that make sense?

This is a
difficult thing to do (and by no means do I claim to be an expert), and I hope you can
find your personal writing groove to accomplish the task, whatever that may be.  Perhaps
instead of an initial letter, you write a journal entry.  I tend to do better focusing
on events and details (the entertaining "meat" of the story) in letters/emails and am
more emotion oriented in journals.  I don't think you want to go the emotional route
here.  Focus on the details of events and wrap it up with a
point.

what is Bob Ewell's response to the verdict as described in Chapter 22? Is it when he spat in Atticus's face and threatened him? If not, what is...

In the closing lines of Chapter 22, Miss Stephanie describes Bob Ewell's response to the verdict by saying, "this morning Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he'd get him if it took the rest of his life".

Why do we have more negative feedback than positive feedback?

Because you tagged this question with "body", I think you are going for something different than what the previous answerers gave you.

Negative and positive feedback loops, when referring to hormones in the body, refer to decreased or increased production of something, usually a hormone, in response to some stimulus from inside or outside the body. There are more negative ones than positive, because usually the stimulus makes us perform an action that decreases the response to the stimulus. The overall goal is to maintain homeostasis--a constant internal environment. For example, an increase in blood pressure is sensed by sensors in the blood vessel walls. This is relayed to the brain, which sends appropriate messages to decrease heart rate.

What is the treatment for stomach ulcers?

Gastric and duodenal ulcer continues to be a major medical problem. Both cause pain and digestive disorders in 10% of people, in certain periods of their lives, and after some severe complications, such as bleeding, may be the cause of premature death.

If until 1976 the only radical treatment of ulcers, designed to control gastric acid secretion, was the surgery, today there is a specific medication, effective to treat ulcers, without the need for surgery.

The treatment is of long duration and is mandatory accompanied by a strict diet. If an untreated ulcer slowly erodes the wall of a blood vessel lining, the result is internal bleeding. Vessel is bleeding inside the stomach, and the first sign is rapid fatigue and dizziness, fainting, the feeling of abdominal fullness, followed by haematemesis (vomiting blood) or melena (blood elimination with faeces). Perforation is less common than bleeding complication, its severity is at least equal if not greater, than the bleeding. A perforated ulcer  requires close care, otherwise death can occur within 48 hours.

Natural treatment:

* 5 days cure with non acidic fruit juices, milk, vegetables (cabbage, potato, carrot, red beet, cucumber, spinach), every day eat 4-5 raw egg whites, made foam (without sugar), broken into 3-4 meals.

* The cure of juices and raw vegetables is held 1-2 months without eating onion, garlic, peppers (acute phase).

* 3 x 1 tablespoon lime coal per day.

* Cure of aloe preparation.

* Green barley juice, 3 x 50 ml. per day.

* Pollen, 2 x 2 tbsp, before meals (morning, noon).

* Internal cure with clay.

* A bath of sunlight per day.

* In case of haematemesis (vomiting blood) will practice bed rest, ice on the abdomen, remove the solid food, drink cold liquids with small sip rare (water with ice cubes, tea hemostatic).

* Gradually, after stopping bleeding, drink milk, eat fresh cheese, yogurt, raw egg white foam, mashed cereal.

* Practice exercise, first slowly, with easy movements, simple exercises, stair climbing, walking, dancing, yoga breathing techniques.

* Acupuncture, aromatherapy, herbal medicine, homeopathy, hypnotherapy, meditation, reflexology, shiatsu.

* Medical supervision.

In the Time of the Butterflies, how does Maria Teresa's diary help her throughout life and how does her diary save her in prison?

As a young girl of 10, Maria Theresa keeps a diary as a way to record her personal secrets, as many young girls do.  In another diary she records her college years, and in a third her six months in prison. The early diary records events such as her First Holy Communion, and also indicates her love of "El Jeffe." Later she reflects in her diary that she no longer thinks of him "like God" as she once did.  In this way, her diary enables her to sort out the truth in life, to develop her understanding of the world.  In prison, we see her diary as her way of maintaing courage by recording thoughts of her family and anecdotes concerning her fellow prisoners.  It also secretly expresses her despair, anger, and terror.  Her prison diary also reveals thet her essential belief in the goodness of other is not destroyed despite her horrific treatment in jail. She uses her diary to help sort through the difficult decision as to whether to pass on to the inspectors the information she was tortured. In the end, she decides not to so so because she does not want the guard who was kind to her to get into trouble.  In many ways, Mate's prison diary functions the same as that of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis during WWII.  Both use their diaries as ways to maintain their faith in human goodness, to record their love of family and life, and maintain a sense of humor in spite of their suffering.

What do we mean by social helpers?Also give some examples.

Like the previous responder said, you may want to clarify a bit more in order to get a more accurate answer to your question.

A social helper would be general term used to describe an individual person or group of people who are committed to helping or assisting others in need. I would also assume that this term could apply to anyone who has the intention of helping society as a whole.

I think an example of a social helper may be a teacher. Teachers assist students everyday, in many different respects. Not only is it a teachers job to teach content of a specific course, but it their responsibility to help in the formation of productive members of society. While teachers get paid to perform a specific job, many go above and beyond what they are supposed to.

Other examples of social helpers may be volunteers in numerous settings and social workers.