Another attempt at a screencast. This one is an introduction to Blake’s Tyger, aimed at Edexcel Certificate/IGCSE students. I hope it is useful.
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Wwwwwhat? The Songs of Experience were not written in 1797, but 1794. The Tyger was likely written earlier than 1794 – and, indeed, many of the “Innocence” and “Experience” songs were contemporaneous. I’d argue that the “Innocence” poems are far from “bland” and need to be read ironically. The Lamb, for example, is surely an ironic indictment to the Sunday School system of getting children to sing rhythmical songs that – as Blake saw it – reinforced powerful ideologies by offering certainties instead of uncertainties. For Blake “Heaven” and “Hell” are reversed (“The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”); the Tyger is the equivalent of Blake’s The Risen Man; as powerful and wonderful as it is, it has still been “framed” / caged and repressed into the “pussy cat” version of a tiger that Blake draws in his engraving – by the those in power – Church and State. The “mind forg’d manacles of “London” are here in the Tyger, but now it is made clear who did the “forging”.