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Unnatural And Industrialized Diction To Describe The Natural Creation Of The Tyger

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Blake uses unnatural and Industrialized diction to describe the natural creation of the Tyger, while Shelley uses Romantic and natural diction to describe the creature in order to prove that to be a pure creation one must be completely natural. Blake utilizes industrialized imagery such as “hammer” (Blake l. 13) and “chain” (Blake l. 13) to describe the creation of the Tyger. While the word “chains” has a harmless denotation, the connotation our society forces onto this term is unnatural. Chains serve the function of restraining people or animals that act animalistically, therefore deserving the cruel treatment. The act of being restrained is violent, and Blake uses this as a parallel to the violence of manipulating unnatural diction to construct a creature, and therefore his disapproving views on the Industrial Revolution. …show more content…

Hammers destroy and demolish objects, another unnatural action because it can not be performed by just human hands alone. However, Blake does not believe that all hammers are negative, but that the person holding the hammer determines the outcome. In this poem, the creator has all rights to create life due to their godlike position. Since a divine creator possesses the hammer used in the production of the Tyger, it ensures the naturality of the creation. However, Blake makes the conscious decision to spell the creation as “Tyger” (l. 1) instead of “Tiger”, which was not due to the time period’s spelling or Blake’s background. Exchanging the “i” for a “y” is considered strange, and again unnatural, similar to Blake’s negative views on the Industrial Revolution. Here, Blake exemplifies his pro-Romantic beliefs through the Tyger’s

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