{"id":25918,"date":"2020-04-01T12:40:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25918"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:41:20","slug":"coronaschooling-day-something-wherein-jethro-tull-answers-william-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/01\/coronaschooling-day-something-wherein-jethro-tull-answers-william-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronaschooling, Day Something: Wherein Jethro Tull Answers William Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night’s poem was “The Tyger<\/a>” by William Blake.<\/p>\n

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
\nIn the forests of the night:
\nWhat immortal hand or eye,
\nCould frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/p>\n

In what distant deeps or skies.
\nBurnt the fire of thine eyes?
\nOn what wings dare he aspire?
\nWhat the hand, dare seize the fire?<\/p>\n

And what shoulder, & what art,
\nCould twist the sinews of thy heart?
\nAnd when thy heart began to beat,
\nWhat dread hand? & what dread feet?<\/p>\n

What the hammer? what the chain,
\nIn what furnace was thy brain?
\nWhat the anvil? what dread grasp,
\nDare its deadly terrors clasp! <\/p>\n

When the stars threw down their spears
\nAnd water’d heaven with their tears:
\nDid he smile his work to see?
\nDid he who made the Lamb make thee?<\/p>\n

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
\nIn the forests of the night:
\nWhat immortal hand or eye,
\nDare frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The poet asks:<\/p>\n

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jethro Tull responds:<\/p>\n