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  2. The Tyger - Wikipedia

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    "The Tyger" is the sister poem to "The Lamb" (from "Songs of Innocence"), a reflection of similar ideas from a different perspective. In "The Tyger", there is a duality between beauty and ferocity, through which Blake suggests that understanding one requires an understanding of the other.

  3. The Lamb (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. "The Lamb" is the counterpart poem to Blake's poem: " The Tyger " in Songs of Experience . Blake wrote Songs of Innocence as a contrary to the Songs of Experience – a central tenet in his philosophy and a central theme in his work. [ 1 ]

  4. The Lamb (Tavener) - Wikipedia

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    The Lamb Choral music by John Tavener "The Lamb" in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794), illustrated by Blake Genre Choral anthem Occasion Third birthday of Tavener's nephew Text "The Lamb" by William Blake Composed 1982 Publisher Chester Music Scoring SATB choir Premiere Date 22 December 1982 Location Winchester Cathedral The Lamb is a choral work written in 1982 by ...

  5. Fearful Symmetry - Wikipedia

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    Fearful Symmetry is a phrase from William Blake's poem "The Tyger" (Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?). It has been used as the name of a number of other works:

  6. Cultural depictions of tigers - Wikipedia

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    Blake's original printing of The Tyger, 1794 In the Hindu epic Mahabharata , the tiger is fiercer and more ruthless than the lion. [ 19 ] William Blake 's poem " The Tyger " portrays the tiger as a menacing and fearful animal, and the tiger Shere Khan in Rudyard Kipling 's 1894 The Jungle Book is the mortal enemy of the human protagonist.

  7. There’s More to It Than What Meets the Eye—Here’s What a Lamb ...

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    3. The Lamb of God. The term "The Lamb of God" holds religious significance in Christianity, and primarily refers to Jesus Christ, carrying a range of symbolic meanings like purity, innocence and ...

  8. William Blake's mythology - Wikipedia

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    The relationship of the four Zoas, as depicted by Blake in Milton a Poem. The longest elaboration of this private myth-cycle was also his longest poem, The Four Zoas: The Death and Judgment of Albion The Ancient Man, written in the late 1790s but left in manuscript form at the time of his death.

  9. John Tavener - Wikipedia

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    Tavener in 2005. Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious works. Among his best known works are The Lamb (1982), The Protecting Veil (1988), and Song for Athene (1993).