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The Tyger

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

William Blake, 1794.

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Mer om dikteren, og mer om diktet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyger
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~wblake/home1.html
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/m/mori ... /blake.htm

Takk nattbibliotekar !

fra morgenfugl

I love the skillfull means of Blake, says the Lady of the Lake.

... siden tigeren (panthera tigris) tilhører panter-familien, tilføyer jeg Rilkes dikt, om et kattedyr i bur. Slik kan det arte seg når brannen omsider skulle slukne i fangenskap, så pass opp:

The Panther

From seeing the bars, his seeing is so exhausted
that it no longer holds anything anymore.
To him the world is bars, a hundred thousand
bars, and behind the bars, nothing.

The lithe swinging of that rhythmical easy stride
which circles down to the tiniest hub
is like a dance of energy around a point
in which a great will stands stunned and numb.

Only at times the curtains of the pupil rise
without a sound . . . then a shape enters,
slips through the tightened silence of the shoulders,
reaches the heart, and dies.

                                              Robert Bly

http://picture-poems.com/rilke/panther.html

On the other hand ...

for some tigers, it might be an option to jump through the ring of fire:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y2iv_E-Fn9E&feature=related

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... and end up on the other side

http://ssaundrs.myweb.uga.edu/tigerpilze.gif[/img]

Oh, wie schön ist Panama!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-JpJjsHgYHA&feature=related