文档介绍：河北民族师范学院外语系2012—2013学年第二学期
2010级英语专业本科
《英语诗歌入门》课程学期论文
论文题目:
An Analysis of “The Tyger”
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河北民族师范学院外语系
课程学期论文
题目:An Analysis of “The Tyger”
姓名:王利利
学号:20**********
指导教师:李建华
完成日期:二O一三年六月
“The Tyger” is a lyric poem by the English poet William Black. 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 panion to William Blake (2003) calls it “the most anthologized poem in English.”
The poem is written in six quatrains of rhyming couplets with a pulsing, steady, mostly-trochaic rhythm.
To begin with, a quatrain is a stanza with four lines. Rhyming couplets are pairs of lines, the last words of which rhyme. Maybe, you are confused that, in the first and last stanzas, “eye” doesn’t rhyme with “symmetry”. However, they do rhyme if you pronounce “symmetry” in an old-fashioned way. So two lines make a couplet, and two couplets make a quatrain or stanza. Lastly, six stanzas make a poem.
The “trochaic” refers to the “trochee”, of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed one (DUM-da, DUM-da, etc.). “The Tyger” isn't