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Read the literary analysis of poetry and answer the questions that follow.
(1) Nature inspires endless questions. (2) Why is every snowflake different? (3) How
do the planets stay in orbit? (4) In “The Lamb” and “The Tyger,” the poet William Blake
ponders another question about the world. (5) Taken together, these poems explore two
conflicting sides of nature—the beautiful and the terrible.
(6) “The Lamb” is a reflection on the beautiful and innocent aspect of nature. (7) The
image of a lamb feeding by a stream or in a meadow is like a scene from the Garden of
Eden. (8) The poem’s repetition and simple rhymes give them a childlike quality. (9) The
speaker asks the same question at the beginning and end of the poem: “Little Lamb, who
made thee / Dost thou know who made thee?” (10) His description of the animal focuses
on its gentleness. (11) He mentions the lamb’s “tender voice, / making all the vales rejoice”
and its “clothing of delight, / Softest clothing, wooly, bright.” (12) The lamb is also a
religious symbol. (13) The speaker notes that God has the same name. (14) “He is meek,
and He is mild, / For He calls Himself a Lamb.”
(15) “The Tyger” shows the dark side of nature. (16) The tiger is portrayed as
fearsome and untamed. (17) He lives not in a sunny meadow, but he lives in the “forests of
the night.” (18) The speaker in this poem also raises questions about creation: “What
immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (19) The creator here is seen
as a powerful force, forging the tiger’s heart, brain, and claws with a hammer, an anvil,
and a fiery furnace. (20) The speaker even wonders whether the fire in the tiger’s eyes
came from the “skies”—the stars—or the “distant deeps”— the fires of hell. (21) Both use
repetition and a simple aa bb rhyme scheme. (22) This poem is similar to “The Lamb” in
structure and style. (23) The effect here, though, is not childlike, but unsettling. (24) We
must learn to respect nature in all its forms.
(25) Near the end of “The Tyger,” the speaker poses one of the great paradoxes of
nature: “Did He who made the lamb make thee?” (26) It isn’t stated. (27) The answer is
yes. (28) Nature is a soft summer shower as well as a deadly hurricane. (29) Nature is a
gentle lamb as well as a fierce tiger. (30) These conflicting forces represent what Blake
called “the contrary states of the human soul.”
____ 51. What change, if any, should be made to sentence 10?
A. Change its to his
B. Change focuses to focused
C. Change gentleness to being gentle
D. Make no change
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