Poetry+Comparison

8. Erosion

It took the sea a thousand years, A thousand years to trace The granite features of this cliff, In crag and scarp and base. It took the sea an hour one night, An hour of storm to place The sculpture of these granite seams Upon a woman's face. 3. 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 sieze 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?  Themes: In erosion, the theme is the power of nature, and how the human race underestimates it and it entirety. In Tyger Tyger, the main theme is the power evil, and how it became so strong. The themes both are related because they highlight the, 'entities' of power. You can see that in many of the poems, because they all are governed by a superior force or character that controls the events of the poem. That is why they can bee looked and compared similarly.

Structure: Tyger Tyger seems to have a different approach to the writing style than erosion did. For example, in Tyger Tyger, the words seemed to be organized AABB (Rhyme 1, Rhyme 1, Rhyme 2, Rhyme 2) which in erosion, had a rhyming approach with AAAA, with one rhyming word or phrase. Also, Tyger Tyger was organized with more of a rhythm or song like format. Erosion has more of a story like approach to it, but they both still seem to be linked by the theme. This is why you can compare the poems on their Structure.

Poetic Devices:

Tyger Tyger has a lot of rhythm and rhyme: On what wings dare he __**aspire**__? What the hand dare sieze the __**fire**__?

Erosion has a few symbols: Upon a **woman's** face. (The woman is representing the human race)

They both are filled with metaphors to represent the situations or subjects.