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| | The Tyger |
 | | Glen, in fact, places "The Tyger" among those "verses about birds and animals, of which there was a whole sub-genre in the children's books of the late eighteenth century." One cause of the growing literacy for children was a strict Methodist ethic which reared children as much for their future salvation as their adulthood. |
 | | Robert F. Gleckner, in 1959, said the tyger belongs to "the finite world, ruled over by Urizen who caused its finiteness the world of experience and tygers." The creator's possible smile in fifth stanza ("Did he smile his work to see?) is the smile of spite, cynicism, cultivated by repressive experience. |
 | | Further, "The Tyger" seemed to be encoded with the same binary value systems that held the Cold War world in place: American capitalism in the West and Soviet communism in the East; the first world of the northern hemisphere and the third of the southern. |
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