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A virtual movie of the great William Blake reading his much loved poem “The Tyger”
0 comentarios Publicado por María Belén en 11:46 amIn this virtual movie made by Jim Clark (2009) the poem is superbly read by Marius Goring.
In 990 David Kronemyer recorded an album with Krysia Kristianne and Leslie Chew called Tyger and Other Tales. It was distributed in the U.S. and internationally by JVC Records. It was what he would characterize as a concept album English romantic poetry set to music. Although he doesn't have much of a taste for that particular genre now, the album was something he had wanted to do for a long time, probably ever since high school. Some of the music had been swirling around in his head for years. Leslie and David auditioned several singers, including Annie Haslam (Renaissance) and Sonja Kristina (Curved Air). For various reasons none of them worked out. They still were looking for that ice princess of British rock sound. David knew Steve Chapman from having worked previously with Al Stewart and Peter White. Steve recommended Krysia, who was amazing. Unfortunately, she recently passed away. The first track on the album is "Tyger" by William Blake.
"The Tyger" is a poem by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. It is one of Blake's best known and most analyzed poems. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (2003) calls it "the most anthologized poem in English."
Most modern anthologies maintain Blake's choice of the archaic spelling "tyger". It was a common spelling of the word at the time but was already "slightly archaic" when he wrote the poem; he spelled it as "tiger" elsewhere, and many of his poetic effects "depended on subtle differences of punctuation and of spelling."Thus, 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 it's not really about a "tiger" at all, but a metaphor.
The Tyger is the sister poem to The Lamb (from Songs of Innocence). The Lamb is a reflection on similar ideas from a different perspective, but it focuses more on goodness than evil.
This is a scan of the plate printed by the author, collected in Songs of Experience, designed after 1789 and printed around 1794.
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