Blake Compare And Contrast Essay

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Compare/Contrast Essay William Blake and Rudyard Kipling both wrote intriguing works of art admiring the different aspects of a tiger’s life. These writers brought out features of tigers that have never been brought to my attention before, the little details. The figurative language, imagery, and perspective the writers used made it easy to picture what is happening in their writing . In other words, their writing was straightforward making it less challenging to follow along. Despite the fact that these selections of writing have been written well, there are some other similarities and differences between the two. A similarity between, “The Tyger” by William Blake and an excerpt from, “The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling happens to be that …show more content…
The author wrote, “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?”(Blake 2). Kipling wrote, “Shere Khan had jumped at a woodcutter's campfire, as Father Wolf had said, and was furious from the pain of his burned feet. But Father Wolf knew that the mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to come in by”(Kipling 2). Blake’s poem is more so describing the attributes of a tiger as if he is writing a poem describing a painting. On the contrary, Kipling’s excerpt is telling a story, a narrative, on how a tiger(Sher Khan) tries to interact with other living things. The writing style is different in both, which may have been affected by the year these writing’s took place; Blake: 1794 and Kipling: 1984. For instance, Blake’s poem uses words such as thy and the spelling of tiger(tyger) which are words no longer used in today’s era and in his writing, figurative language is used quite frequently. Kipling uses modern day words and literal language to tell his tale, making it easier to understand the actions occurring in his
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