i honestly think that the fact that you have two different hairstyles in the lamb and the Tyger is symbolic.
@suigeneris28433 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@SixMinuteScholar3 жыл бұрын
Haha! It must be!
@carleighmiller57323 жыл бұрын
You’re the reason my professor gives me bonus points and not to anyone else lmao
@emilio21826 жыл бұрын
The world needs more people like you Rebecca 😘
@SixMinuteScholar6 жыл бұрын
You're very kind! Thanks. :-)
@e2k2204 жыл бұрын
simp
@newbiegamer30404 жыл бұрын
I'm not a native English speaker, This makes it harder for me understand literature, especially the old English words. This video really helped me, thanks 🌹
@TheAuntieBa4 жыл бұрын
Newbie Gamer You are brave for engaging in poetry outside your language! Respect from Minnesota, USA. 🇺🇸
@mateba56472 жыл бұрын
me too
@TheAuntieBa4 жыл бұрын
Deep thanks for your lesson. Beautifully done. We embody both the predator and the prey.
@SixMinuteScholar4 жыл бұрын
My soul bows to yours. You're so very welcome.
@peachesgingersnaps86785 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed the longer video! Your interpretations are fantastic & you’re just so sweet :) Thank you!
@siriuszenith45122 жыл бұрын
How do you know the good, in the absence of bad? How can we say we are happy if don`t know how it feels to be sad. Thank you, love your interpretations of poems...keep up the good work😊
@sarahbahemia29802 жыл бұрын
How can you say we are happy if we don’t know how it feels to be sad?This is magnificently written by Khalill Gibran in his poem on joy and sorrow .a great Persian poet.
@Belows6823 жыл бұрын
I need to take a minute to thank you. i am NOT a poet by any means. your clear and concise explanations of these poems have helped me significantly in my literature class. my grade would not be as good as it is without you. thank you!
@bredamaune20283 жыл бұрын
Always a joy to listen to. Thank you.
@Annxity3 жыл бұрын
You explain so beautifully. It really makes me enjoy the poem and drive home its essence.
@grippingstranger90216 жыл бұрын
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! 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? Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
@sgaea70802 жыл бұрын
You my friend, are amazing for this 🙏
@grippingstranger90212 жыл бұрын
@@sgaea7080 You're welcome and thank you for your kind message.
@AnhNguyen-hn9vj Жыл бұрын
ya. it is a little difficult to feel the heart of the poem as most of us didn't know much about the tiger or even have any contact at all with the tiger. Good thing we have internet and learn much about tiger with tons of videos on tigers these days. :)
@jeffwalther39356 жыл бұрын
Blake's questioning divine creation. Further, hes suggesting that each of the very specialized features of the thing, tiger, have specific, survival reasons, not capricious, superflous or arbitrary features a divine creation would show.
@miajoielle1223 жыл бұрын
a really big help, professor!! thank you for explaining the poem carefully
@giodeandrade14884 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant poem! Thank you for this video, you are an amazing teacher. Regards from Brazil
@TheAuntieBa4 жыл бұрын
Giovana Rodrigues I had a beloved friend from Brasil, Alberto Aguas, who used to read his favorite poet to me, both in Portuguese and English. Alberto died in 1992, just two weeks after my wedding.
@miroslavfuntek19726 жыл бұрын
Thank You . You did a realy good job here .
@SixMinuteScholar6 жыл бұрын
You're welcome! Thx.
@toqaessam70554 жыл бұрын
I loved ur simple explanation ..you're amazing ..go on ❤😊
@mikeshoults41555 жыл бұрын
The spelling is important, it gives a direction to the intended pronunciation. In the intended pronunciation there is more harmony within the entirety of the poem, the accents, the cadence, the vowels, the rhythm of the consenents. Remember it is not written with an American accent in mind. Try to play with your vowel formations to create harmony and you can see a beautiful hypnotic pulse emerge.
@aditya.mishra2 жыл бұрын
This explanation is really good. Thanks a lot for uploading this!!!
@cameracameras6 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed your video. I have a better understanding of The Tyger now.
@PreacherMan19715 жыл бұрын
Thank you for explaining this deep poem 👍
@manoelafelix71486 жыл бұрын
could we also argue that this beauty of the tiger is a metaphor for how vein society is, in the sense that all this beauty is also accompanied by a bad/dangerous side?
@marionj93436 жыл бұрын
Reading the variety of comments/opinions .... Thx for YOUR commentary on one of the most influential poems of My life [brought to my attention by Tangerine Dream] ..... I truly believe this Blake poem & TD's/Froese's music has added at least 14 years to my earthly journey .... [Not so sure I have a solid gratitude for the added years BUT I Am grateful for the added Spirit that makes the time bearable]
@varshapatil32315 жыл бұрын
I am so happy that I got this poem explained by you as I have an exam tomorrow😍
@jongriggs852 жыл бұрын
I dig it, great analysis.
@harikrishnan27133 жыл бұрын
Awesome!! Splendid interpretation 😇
@EddieGolightly6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this video!
@lovinuneikha81375 жыл бұрын
best explanation I've heard so far in KZfaq. tysm
@thecroseknows7 жыл бұрын
The stars and their spears can be an allusion to Milton, thus referring to the war in heaven before creation. The implication of this would extend to making this poem a short of theodicy, if you consider natural evil.
@SixMinuteScholar7 жыл бұрын
thecroseknows Thank you! Forgot all about that!
@anoiomerp2147 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much I appreciate your work
@ronshah2467 жыл бұрын
wow. I just can't believe the coincidence. just recently I started following the professor, primarily because in my masters syllabus consisted of stuff that she had analysed here on the KZfaq channel. I passed the semester and now have a new syllabus and here we go, the latest upload by ma'am is Blake songs of I n E, which happens to be my current academic undertaking. :)
@Michelle-pn9xt4 жыл бұрын
Her name is Rebecca Balcarcel.
@nacho76303 жыл бұрын
This is so helpful! Thank you😊
@nicholasjohnfranklin73973 жыл бұрын
In Blake’s Early Modern English ‘eye’ /əi/ (and indeed ‘I’) does in fact rhyme with ‘symmetry’.
@SixMinuteScholar3 жыл бұрын
Good point! I love knowing this! Thank you!
@tortoisedreams63697 жыл бұрын
"When the stars threw down their spears/And water'd heaven with their tears" is difficult -- maybe a private symbolism since Blake was such a mystic? The key for me is the word "when." With those 2 lines Blake is establishing a certain point in time or creation *when* he smiled to see his work (or did he) in making the tiger. If I could figure out just what point in time that was (when the stars threw spears & cried tears), I might understand the poem better. Thank you for your thoughtful analysis. Such an enjoyable way to learn.
@yancke5 жыл бұрын
"The fifth stanza is more puzzling, but ‘stars’ have long been associated with human destiny (as the root of ‘astrology’ highlights). For Kathleen Raine, this stanza can be linked with another of William Blake’s works, The Four Zoas, where the phrase which we also find in ‘The Tyger’, ‘the stars threw down their spears’, also appears. There it is the godlike creator of the universe (Urizen in Blake’s mythology) who utters it; Urizen’s fall, and the fall of the stars and planets, are what brought about the creation of life on Earth in Blake’s Creation story. " Copied from : interestingliterature.com/2017/03/16/a-short-analysis-of-william-blakes-the-tyger/
@davidkeitel59674 жыл бұрын
The stars symbolize the angels, as in the stars of Hollywood representing the fallen angels that give the gift of acting. The stars throwing spears refers to the war in heaven when one third of them were cast down to earth because of their rebellion. Their tears is because of the great rift between them and their first dominion they can never regain.
@rohitdutta13226 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much... this is very helpful...
@faerion18823 жыл бұрын
Wonderful understanding!
@rajasankari26445 жыл бұрын
I find it very useful.. Thank you..!!
@azpenmo25366 жыл бұрын
Very helpful!!! Thank you ❤️❤️
@thecroseknows7 жыл бұрын
The last line of the first stanza has an extra syllable which throws off the "symmetry" of the poem which mirrors the dread tiger. No longer is this the world of the lamb where everything makes sense. Now we are left with questions. Not to mention the the tiger eats the lamb.
@EUSA17763 жыл бұрын
Unintended consequence- symmetry was said differently in the time the poem was written . Symmetry was likely said like “semi” “try” not “semi” “tree.” Shakespeare is also full of different phrasings that when said correctly fix the rhyme scheme .
@Niharika-mc5nv4 жыл бұрын
It's wonderful ma'am 💓
@samthesnowman6665 жыл бұрын
4:45 amazing concept
@leonardocuellar31194 жыл бұрын
Great analysis! Your videos help me with my summer classes in British literature. From my understanding, isn't best to say that the beast is the devil since he is this powerful and frightening creature?
@BlueKrakenSpaghetti7 жыл бұрын
I would love if you could do a video on "Where are you going, where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates. Great content by the way!
@SixMinuteScholar7 жыл бұрын
Such a disturbing story -- but a good one to analyze! I'll add that to my list. Thanks!
@Robert_Lindsay Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed your input on this, since I’m going to play a YT video version to my classes, young Taiwanese adults, playing it more for the drama, depth and superb imagery of it, which I know they will sense between the lines. I liked your reference to duality, though you didn’t go into that much. In my view, the seemingly opposite instincts or energies of tiger and lamb exist within us, ready for potential integration and expression and each has their appropriate time and place. (Though I don’t think Blake was trying to say that). 😅
@seanledet14 жыл бұрын
As I understand it, Romantic Poetry especially looked to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. I heard that the Romans used to think that the stars were holes in the dome of the sky and that above it was water. So, the stars were the holes that the rain came from. Maybe Blake meant the Spears as a metaphor for long raindrops in addition to the other connotations the professor explained.
@Blessedislitt6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! In seventh accelerated starting to get a bit harder ! Let's hope my grades stay good:))
@syedmuhammadhaseeb9886 Жыл бұрын
Lots of love from Pakistan🇵🇰 helped me a lot!
@ronshah2467 жыл бұрын
ma'am can you please come up with the Wordsworthian prelude after this :) :) :) and thanks a lot for this one.
@saffahanjum97807 жыл бұрын
so helpful, thank you x
@SixMinuteScholar7 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@axlakaisuzu6 жыл бұрын
I agree with you on the interpretation of the stars throwing down beams of light in a way thst they are very much like us, humans. They surround the planet and for that they know about what happens all around the world. In that way, their act of enlightening the tiger makes alusion to our awareness of the beast, since they (the stars ) could only see god's creation after throwing some light on it. Then they cried just like we panic with awereness of how powerful a tiger is. Then he askes if god was happy with that. Thoughts on this anyone?
@BebeLush23 жыл бұрын
I just think of Tyger Tyger as a beautiful poem to a beautiful creature.
@krustomer7 жыл бұрын
Love these!
@SixMinuteScholar7 жыл бұрын
krustomer I'm so glad!
@t.retamar94434 жыл бұрын
Thank you from Argentina
@lopezb4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@charlieelizabeth35717 жыл бұрын
Have you ever did an analysis of the short story Lamb to the Slaughter? I'd love to hear your thoughts!
@SixMinuteScholar7 жыл бұрын
Linda Lind ASMR I'll have to look for that one. Thanks for the suggestion!
@jimgoodreau89974 жыл бұрын
Your wonderful critic is the best I’ve experienced! On the first read of ‘The Tyger’ I understood The Lamb metaphor to be The Christ....... Truly a powerful poem, thank you!
@OrdinaryAvocado8 ай бұрын
Saved my grade 🙏
@cesarroman84796 жыл бұрын
Personally I believe Spears and Waters the Stars produce could elude to the natural process of planetary irrigation. The Duality exemplified in such way, is inextricably bound to human needs and survival. As I have framed it, the example guids me to the same conclusion you expressed. Should he have done as I expressed, it could mean he was an environmentally friendly individual in a time where industry was all the rage.
@SixMinuteScholar6 жыл бұрын
Cesar Roman Good point!
@mthwr5 жыл бұрын
Nice video !
@busterducke48985 жыл бұрын
Duality is defined as consciousness...awareness. Good and Evil Dark and Light What Does Thou Create !
@neetanikam16846 ай бұрын
Nice video
@thenerdybookworm6215 жыл бұрын
try increasing the volume next time
@conejitogediondo4 жыл бұрын
Try getting some earphones/headphones, they help.
@megafonundmo14586 жыл бұрын
Thabk you very much
@sanakhan-bv5uy7 жыл бұрын
Aww loveeeee uuuuu ♢♡♢♡
@roohidcruze77554 жыл бұрын
Hi Rebecca while listening to your explanation of the poem something came to mind regarding the first two lines of the fifth stanza. The stars have probably given up their monopoly as rulers of the night and being the sole objects in the universe to glow in the night and they're filled with tears as on the other now, after the creation of the tiger something else would glow at night(tiger's eyes). They won't remain the sole illuminators of the night. Please share your views on this interpretation Regards
@juliangiulio31473 жыл бұрын
I just wouldn't call the 'tyger' as dark': Dark is unconscious in our shadow, for me... Tyger creature-liness (however fearful is to us, our mortal selves indeed, is beautiful, almost cute, but yes, forged in the Fire, so Alive is the tyger, when we look at a tiger., s/he is so full of 'natureous' life, in a fiery way, burning indeed brightly; and FORGED in the fire~...; symmetry reminds us how beautiful it is... 'Dread' is a dramatic word for me, makes me eyes water when read this bit, (like the stars!) 'what dread hands, what dread feet'; what an Audacious creation & Creature!
@oussamalazaar11185 жыл бұрын
Hi Ma'am , can you please analyse ''The little Black Boy '' by William Blacke ??? . I'm really in need .
@vee9855 жыл бұрын
Makes sense that spears mean star light, since the Tyger is in the forest at night.
@2dcmarchesi5795 жыл бұрын
love you rebecca
@tomdavidson30693 жыл бұрын
What is the nature of God ? To me, this Great and Terrible poem challenges us to ponder, honestly, this Awe-full question. "Did He who made the Lamb make Thee..?" is , to me, one of the most difficult and disturbing ideas to confront, and to Try to answer, in life.. especially Spiritual Life..and people have been debating it for centuries..I think Blake implies His answer..This is Scary Stuff : a "song of experience" to be sure.. Thank You !
@adamzineddin-_-48905 жыл бұрын
maybe he is talking about when the stars fall and its judgment day or the last day in this universe and life is about to seize existence, did he plan this, did he intend for this to happen. I don't think smile is actually smiling(physically) I think it means foreseeing the future this is my opinion I don't know :)
@anshdagar91695 жыл бұрын
everyones wrong when blake says 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? he actually is compairing the tiger to the fallen angel lucifer,who now maybe is satan
@uniquelyana50855 жыл бұрын
Ansh Dagar you know what up my dood
@sabaashraf46983 жыл бұрын
It was helpful .
@sathishass16353 жыл бұрын
Madam, please make more videos. You are not making any videos these days. I am from india. I recently cleared JRF exam. I get seat and scholarship to do my PhD...
@SixMinuteScholar3 жыл бұрын
You are right! I would like to make more soon!
@sathishass16353 жыл бұрын
@@SixMinuteScholar thank you so much. I am in need of somebody who can guide me to prepare my research proposal to present in the interview. I am not getting any ideas madam. Please guide me..
@adilzeeshan21284 жыл бұрын
Good explaination but could be better if u could increase the audio it was a bit hard to listen👍👍
@oldmannotwiser97344 жыл бұрын
On pronunciation, is it possible that the last 'y' in symmetry be pronounced the same as 'y'' in tyger?
@rhymeswithyetiv23313 жыл бұрын
Yup I think it would make that stanza line
@valentinabenivegna27654 жыл бұрын
Do you think he's talking about a real tiger or is the tiger a symbol for the evil / scary side of nature, or maybe both?
@jeffwalther39356 жыл бұрын
Theres a volume problem with the video. For hearing impaired, couldnt producers provide transcripts to their videos?
@juliangiulio31473 жыл бұрын
just press 'CC' along the bottom! As on most youtubes... It might not be perfect but will be about / at least 90% correct!
@jeffwalther39353 жыл бұрын
@@juliangiulio3147 oh no, the things shown on that cc are terribly misleading, I'd say worse than not having it. Im sure theres better cc transcription apps than the fazoo the youtube's sticking us with - for no good reason.
@juliangiulio31473 жыл бұрын
@@jeffwalther3935 haha,. OK. I was just saying, it is normally 90% accurate, but I have not seen this one. I take screenshots, (oftentimes) and they are 90-95% accurate, sorry this is not the case for you. not a human doing it, alas!
@juliangiulio31473 жыл бұрын
@@jeffwalther3935 (I put big mistakes in the top bar and screenshot that!)
@jeffwalther39353 жыл бұрын
@@juliangiulio3147 it could be the videos I watch are filled with acronyms, technical, new, non-phonetic-based words and foreign intruding words that have to be inserted in the caption anyway for flow reasons, so the nearest sounding word for the app is used with startling and sometimes horrifying results - just and for me, I guess, since it ALWAYS works so well and good, 90-95% for you. Its not funny when it happens.
@basochingmak40915 жыл бұрын
I have to appear my exam tomorrow and have nothing prepared..XD But I understood something from the video.. Thank you so much..At list I can write something now..lol
@raviprabhakar77926 жыл бұрын
It's actually a contradictory title for a “MAN”
@gwendajensen97733 жыл бұрын
The stars throw down their spears and water heaven with their tears: For this image two thoughts: (1) I imagine the stars surrendering to God's Will, throwing down their spears as they surrender and sad because they don't agree with God's decision to create a world that includes the Tyger, but they must accept it. So the stars are like angels and this refers to the idea of a war in heaven between angelic and demonic forces, and yet the twist is that the rebellious angels rebel because they disagree with God's plan/creation of a world that allows for disobedience, darkness, dread, and danger. (2) The image suggests a medieval cosmology reference to me, but sorry I haven't tried to pin this down. But C.S. Lewis has written on understanding literature with reference to medieval ideas about the world. A quick search and I found this website which might have something relating stars to watering the earth: blogs.getty.edu/iris/written-in-the-stars-astronomy-and-astrology-in-medieval-manuscripts/ Thank you for your very helpful - brief yet understandable - introduction to this amazing poem. The Tom O'Bedlam version of the poem - you have probably already seen it, but if not that's what brought me here and it's a wonderful rendition - the music and visual and voice just perfect for this poem.
@catrice88524 жыл бұрын
just me or was it really quiet?
@Rachel-jj7zv Жыл бұрын
I would think the Stars are angels, in reference to the Bible
@platipusduckbill3 жыл бұрын
Ironical, the guy who wrote the Lamb and wrote the Tyger, two masterpieces, is questioning God for creating the same?
@dmm312411 ай бұрын
He used sight rhymes. And could you please put the microphone closer to you next time?
@carolinafine80504 жыл бұрын
Himself
@dusthat5 жыл бұрын
When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears: An illusion to the fallen angels? Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? God made Jesus the Lamb to counter Lucifer. And God also made Lucifer.
@davidkeitel59674 жыл бұрын
The lamb is Jesus, the Tiger is the most perfect of His creation, Lucifer, the king of the beasts
@fearfulsymmetry12 жыл бұрын
Science evolves as years pass..And ,yes,tiger is the wildest of all animals on Earth,the most capable hunter and the most efficient killer.But a!so,tiger has the largest brain af all felines and the most complex one,and a study came up with the impressive conclusion that tigers reach almost 70% of depth and complexity of the human feelings..A giand Siberian tiger named Neron,(385 kg at its prime)was living with a Canadian couple.The husband was closer to the tiger,they were spending many hours a day at the forest.One day,the man died.When the tiger realized that his best friend will never come back,he refused to eat since then.Neron died from starvation a few weeks later...he died on his beloved rug....And another story:At a village of Siberia(unfortunately,I don't remember the village name),a wounded tiger came to a man's house seeking for help.The man found the courage to set the tiger free from the trap.The tiger, although in great pain,showed no signs of agressiveness to her saviour.When she was set free,she disappeared at the snowy forest.A few weeks later,the man woke up in the morning and went to open the front door of his wooden house.But the door seemed to be stucked.He came out of a window...when he raised his head,he felt like he was thunderstrucked:the tiger he helped,was 70 meters away staring at him...Full of mixed feelings,the man decided to see what was blocking his front door....It was a dead dear!!!The tiger killed the deer and brought it to the man that saved her as a gift,to thank him!!!..When the tiger made sure that the man was aware of her gift,she went back to the forest.Conclusions1):A human being is capable of the best,and also the worst.2)Animals aren't good or bad.Their instinct is higher than humans, they are not greed.3)You love a human being,yet he may betray you.You show love to an animal,it will show more love to you....General conclusion:love is so strong,it can make the wildest animal your best friend,even a member of your family
@i.kyeptho38265 жыл бұрын
Who else is watching because u have an exam very sonn
@rayjohnsmusic97512 жыл бұрын
But did God make the tiger king?
@caden33064 жыл бұрын
mommy
@quintoflyer2 жыл бұрын
mmm bull its about the MOON
@ryangollihar22903 жыл бұрын
I can't here her voice speak!
@samthesnowman6665 жыл бұрын
atat
@gagankumar.k33646 жыл бұрын
I think u make it too long
@SixMinuteScholar6 жыл бұрын
Geleya creations You're right! I should call my channel SixteenMinuteScholar -- or sixty! I'll try harder next time.
@md.talhachoudhury61587 жыл бұрын
y did you chng h r style bad
@SixMinuteScholar7 жыл бұрын
Md.Talha Choudhury Yeah, sorry. I got tired of dying it. This is my natural hair. So much easier!
@melaniealphonso162 жыл бұрын
I find this comment very distasteful. What does one's hair colour have to do with you. People should not have to apologize for the colour of their hair. Nonsense! You look unique and beautiful Ms. Rebecca. Don't be sorry
@SEAGOIL6 жыл бұрын
I cannot gage your age ma’am,You look like a super young grandma. Also thank you for the brain sustenance, it tasted like plastic and glue.
@peterdodd19422 жыл бұрын
For goodness sake learn to enunciate, and desist from mumbling ! and using phrases like 'kinda'
@ocraggy6 жыл бұрын
I thnk you made it too long. That´s the problem of most of the teachers. Uselessly complicated and then the students are even more confused.