Possibility Of God Depicted In Emily Dickinson's 'The Tyger'

ID #1: “The Tyger” by William Blake (pages 378-379) Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? In “The Tyger,” William Blake questions the possibility of whether God not only loves us unconditionally but also can have wrath and bring down justice on the people of earth. In “The Lamb”, Blake shows the soft and Pre-K side of God- how loving and sweet he is, to send His small Lamb down for our sins so we may have eternal life, but in contrast this poem goes deeper- the Lamb is allowed to be slain by the same God who created it. A tiger is intimidating and deadly; it naturally kills not because it has a desire to but because it was created to do so, as it can be explained in line four when Blake describes it as “fearful

Who are you?” Emily Dickinson strongly expresses her opinion of why she is not interested in being well-known, unlike most people, during her life. Dickinson wants people to realize that she is satisfied being unrecognizable, and that it is not an unfortunate thing to be a “nobody”. How she describes those who are famous or recognized public figures is as a “Somebody”. Many people wish to be known, whether it be through fame or through their studies or even in corporate chains. Most would assume an author like Dickinson would had hoped for fame and fortune from her poems, but instead she was not even interested in those around her to know that she wrote, let alone a large population of people! To be recognized on such a wide-scale level would require being publicized in most or all things of one’s life. As a frog croaks loudly in a bog, once people begin to know your name as someone who is famous then you will be put on a spotlight for everyone to admire. Even for those who wanted the fame, it will not last forever. Instead, fame is typically like the months of summer. When this season comes, people are excited for the hot summer rays and the fun. Though, eventually the season ends and people are ready for it to get cooler and life to seemingly go back to how it is every other part of the year. Once summer is up, the frog no longer croaks in the ffbog, just as once someone’s season of fame is up they will no longer be recognized, so the rush is gone and

Even up into death there will always be something that takes your mind off what might be important, even if that means during the process of death. Your Fly comes buzzing in, but it is uncertain and stumbling so even as you try to fight to avoid your distraction it will come back in and get you to focus on it again. For Dickinson, she describes the whole process of this death in which she is laying peacefully, a family around her as she signs off her things, just for the last stanza to come out and her begin to get distracted by her Fly. It gets in between her and the light, in a way what we can say her and maybe Heaven or Jesus. Just as she was beginning to see it, the windows were opening and the light was shining in, her distraction comes back into her mind and blocks her view. At that exact moment is when she describes in line 19 how suddenly “And the Windows failed,” her eyes themselves completely failed. She is not dead but she is still the process of dying, but her one sense skill needed to be able to see what was on the other side, is gone. She had allowed her Fly to come and take away that moment- no longer being able to “see to see” what the light consisted of. This Fly can easily be taken as common everyday distractions as of today, as well, cell phones being one of