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Analysis of The Tyger by Background: The Tyger ,one of William Blake(1759-1827)’s most famous poem published in a collection of poems called Songs of Experience , Blake wrote The Tyger during his more radical激进 period. He wrote most of his major works during this time railing against oppressive institutions like the church or the monarchy, or any and all cultural traditions which stifled imagination or passion. His choice of tyger has usually been interpreted as being for effect, perhaps to render an exotic or alien quality of the beast, or because its not really about a tiger at all, but a metaphor. The Meter and The Rhyme Scheme： (the poem is in trochaic tetrameter) The poem contains six quatrains(A quatrain is a four-line stanza) ; and its rhyme is assonant(谐音), and follows perfectly the pattern aabb due to, in the case of the first and the sixth stanzas, the word ‘symmetry’ is pronounced in such a way that it rhymes with ‘eye’. the semantic fields With regard to the semantic fields, there are words related to the tools used by an ironsmith like, for instance, ‘hammer’, ‘chain’, ‘furnace’, and ‘anvil’, in the fourth stanza. Also, we can find a semantic field related to Nature like, for example, ‘forests’ (line 2), ‘skies’ (line 5), ‘Tiger’ (lines 1 and 21), and ‘Lamb’ (line 20). But, above all, the poet used a semantic语义的 field related to Creation when he writes words or phases like: ‘What immortal hand and eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? The simple structure The simple structure and the vocabulary help the reader to understand the main topics or concepts(思想), which are Evil, Good, and God The first impression that William Blake gives is that he sees a terrible tiger in the night, and, as a result of his state of panic(恐慌), the poet exaggerates（夸张） the description of the animal when he writes: ‘Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright In the forests of the night…’ However, paying more attention to what comes next, the author talks about Evil, and Good, as I said ab