Tyger! Tyger! burning bright ~ poem reading with text

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The Lamb by William Blake ~ poem with Text

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William Blake

Explain the quotes below:

Group 1:

1.      The tyger’s wrath is wiser than the horses of instruction

2.      Without contrasts is no progression

3.      Religion, politics and industrialism are “dark Satanic Mills”

Group 2:

       4.      Prisons are built with stones of law, Brothels with bricks of religion

5.      Active Evil is better than Passive Good

6.      The two contrary states of the human soul (“Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”)