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Compare And Contrast Dumby And The Tyger

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On the other hand, ‘TheTyger’ begins “Tyger Tyger, burning bright” this may convey a sense urgency and fear in the narrator’s speech as he does not begin directly asking the tiger a question he instead compliments the tiger’s orange fur through the use of the word ‘burning’. The word ‘burning’ also conveys a sense of danger and energy within the Tyger which may suggest the narrator is in awe. This reinforces through the alliterating of the ‘t’ and the ‘b’ in the first line which expresses a sense of vigor. Blake then describes the creation of the tiger “In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp”. The words ‘furnace’ and ‘anvil’ are mainly used in the description of a Blacksmith which suggests a very physical, laborious,
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