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William Blake: Tyger Tyger
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In The Tyger Blake points to the contrast between these two animals: the tiger is fierce, active, predatory, while The Lamb is meek, vulnerable and harmless. In the first stanza Blake, as in The Tyger, asks questions, and these are again directed to the animal, although the reader has less difficulty guessing the answer, which the poet in any case gives in the second stanza. The picture of The Lamb's feeding "by the stream and o'er the mead" (=meadow) is a beautiful one, which suggests God's kindness in creation, and has an echo of similar descriptions in the Old Testament book of Psalms (especially Psalm 23, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want") and the parables of Jesus.
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It's not all sweet William though. 'Banana's' is a typically pan-cultural collage, and the floating triad of 'Breathing Out Of The World', 'Swallow In The World' and 'Swallow In The World (reprise)' are text-book exercises in the use of dub space. Of the other directly Blakean stuff, the ever familiar 'Tyger Tyger' gets a stately, rootsical treatment, and is surely destined for single release, while 'Auguries Of Innocence' is a sulphurous, vituperative rant. Throughout, Wobble is backed by a sterling team including the clinically metronomic drumming of ex-Can man Jaki Liebzeit.
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The Tyger and The Lamb go well together, because in them, Blake examines different, almost opposite or contradictory, ideas about the natural world, its creatures and their Creator. How do you see the two animals depicted? What images do you find interesting, and what do they tell you?
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