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PostIcon Posted on: Mar. 11 2001,02:08  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Anyone feel like helping me out with this explication of "The Tiger" by William Blake?

What do these lines mean:

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?

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thats pretty straightforward. i think you just need a dictionary.
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I think it more or less means:

Who stamped on your bollocks, crazy tiger,
that no man will stamp on your bollocks again.

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it could be the itsy bitsy spider for all anyone knows. i think poetry is a total crock. i had this english teacher in highschool how told me i had no sense of it and that i never would because you either get it or you don't. so she proceeded to fail me on every assignment. it was AP english for cryin' out loud! i somehow find that you-get-it-or-you-don't crap a bit much for poetry. i'm fine with you're-an-algebra-or-a-trig person, but the whole poetry thing seems very open to me. anyway, the same teacher also said that every poem ever written is either about God or sex. i believe this one would be about sex.
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your english teacher is an idiot.
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