William Blake's Lamb-like Wail
Poetic Post Card - Friday June 5 2009
It just happened, really ; like ALL Creation.
"The Tyger" from "Songs of Experience"
Original (1794) Poem by William Blake :
Tyger!
Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In
what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze (sic) the fire?
And
what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What
the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When
the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger!
Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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24th, 25th &
26th July 2009
because
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it
if it ain't implicit so...
...much as I hate to <jerk the joke>
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The POWER of the audio that
I managed to
contrive from my <raw-roar Aural
Aurora>
reading of this classic poem was a "doctoring"
done with "A Little Bit of Luck" and the magic
of Screaming Bee's .Morph
Vox Pro. and
Syntrillium's .Cool
Edit Pro 2.1..
It wasn't very imaginative to choose to voice
the
"Tyger" as
a tiger
; in retrospect, I might
have aimed to make this <body-less tiger> sound
like a <toothless tiger> - but I think that would
have been another "joke" largely lost - if
achievable at all.
Kate
Bush had to EXPLAIN that ("Uh-hurr-")
her mum-now (blingy ? mum)
mumbling on
"King
of the Mountain" was an impression of Elvis.
How disappointing.
"Never complain, never explain,"
said (lots
of people including) the
Queen Mother.
That's <<Grrrrrrreat !>> (<--- and THAT's
a "Tony
the Tiger" quote) if you are
ALREADY WHERE YOU NEED TO BE.
Hmm. Over-shot that first "still"....Still,
there's
still time to tell you that the Tiger-Print Tie
is a mild rebus of "Tie-Grr !" and might have
been all I would ever have adorned the speaker
with had I stuck to my initial impulse which was
very much to :
i.e. "Keep it Simple, Stupid"...
...hence the minimalistic
"That's
All Folks !"-style rear roundette.
Probably best not to, like an <amateur
amator>,
get awkwardly osculatory with such a beast
as 'im above
(the law of the lore)
unless he is (a gummy-chummy)
of the decidedly toothless variety...
...or nailed (before he's gaoled) to a
Trophy Shield as this bellowing fellow,
safely, is.
Gee Whizz !
Of course, I pegged him to a (gored- ?) board
because he had no body
("join the <club" of
the clubbed>)
and it saved me the job of separately
animating standard limbs.
I could skip the over-laying twitchings that
I employed in the melancholy :
So as to lessen the impact of how static his
lugs are, I began flinging distractors.
Yeah...What's a Dis Tractor ? A J.C.B. in Hell.
The introduction of the on-going fiery theme
illustrated firstly by one of my favourite
unencumbered timber enembered snapshots which
-<<<BAHURRRRRN THA WITCH !!!!>>>-
with its (capped ?) peek of piqued-teak mystique,
colourfully complements the Big Cat's Mount.
"The
Tyger" (tamed) - a beau with a bow,
ever-ready for (battery and) his close-up,
caught (short
? If not distraught) in the
(head(-lining)) lamp(s) of flash photography.
I considered leaving the tie-turned-ribbon
stationary, to excuse his paralysed ear ; but
elected "erasure"
instead. "U2"
?
Do we divine an apt Pub Sign,
do we divine the vine and WHY
(no ?!)
the facing feline's "legless" ?
A series of subSWIG-QUENCHed "Signs" follow.
(Hic !)
Ceaseless (Ghosts &) Wonders, huh ?
Some general prettification. It's a combination
of a camouflagey painty-splat (that obviously
needed, itself, to be COVERED-UP) background
with a Grand
Old English Oak Tree.
Who here can think of ACORNy jOAK ?
Well, if
Blake's "Jerusalem" is about Jesus
going
on a School Trip to The
Partly-Piratey People's
Republic of West Cornerland, I can plant summink
calmer than a conifer for this jungle-jingle-jangle.
Puny puns ? I just can't leaf them alone.
"Now we see him, now we don't."
Super purty
mefinx... if not MeSphinx.
Again, faintly pretty. I enjoy the journey
on the colour WhEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeel !
The next shade's yellow and you don't need
me
to "hold
your hand" (I'm NOT a Be(a/e)tle be that
a VW
OR a Liverpudlian)
to tell you there's no
fruit-dispute as "THIS HAND" is a hand of bananas.
"Yes,
We Have No Bananas"
(LISTEN
TO THE LOUIS PRIMA VERSION AT LAST.FM)
(no "Eye of the Storm" and no (demure)
Aye Aye Lemur) when we travel from
a (great big) "Hand
of Bananas"
to the Eyes of (needlessly ?)
needled Potatoes.
Taste reigns so I shall refrain from mentioning
Camels here, a Bible-imbiber
might NOT.
This is probably the same not-very-edgy-edging
that
I used to bound the border of "Knowledge
of Porridge".
The still is a "frame", a frame WITHIN a "frame".
Ooo ! Look ! I know about the
green-screen key
in .Adobe
Premiere Pro.. Not well enough
to
block-out properly and with as much adherence
to "symmetry" as Alanis
Morrisette manages to
"irony" in her chronic "Ironic".
I had originally been toying with ideas about
Lambs and Tigers and mirrors (if NOT "Lions
and Tigers and Bears - oh my !") but, as I
<build as I go> those possibilities were no
FURther explored than in this single
<PRESS ALL THE BUTTONS> image.
The "distant" distance here is "Distant
Poplars"
by Claude
Monet. I could pretend that I chose a
work by this Frenchman because his name
sounds like "Clawed Money".
Staying with painters, colours and the overall
incendiary theme, I could also pretend that this
accidentally-alighted-upon image was
DELIBERATELY discovered.
It is ("Burnt)
Sienna
(") Miller,
stained sepia,
posing, usefully with BOTH the "Tyger"
and
the "chain" from
the poem. Coo, Ta, Pet...
(Burnt)
Sienna
Miller provides the "thi(gh)" in
"thine" eventually
doubling the central "i"
that
is neither "me" nor "thee" to...
...two eyes.
The "wings"
belong to a Tiger Moth.
NATURE's version is less plain than the plane.
The "terrible asp"
I chose for the first half of
this word is, fittingly, the TIGER
Snake ; how
"charming"...
Oh ! And it can do BOTH
"HissssSssSsSsS
!" and "Boo !"
This is what happens when a Tiger Snake gets
"rattled".
The "spire" portion of "aspire"
is from
the Church (the Christopher
Wren-designed
St.James's,
Picadilly) where
William
Blake was baptised.
From "aspire"
and " a spire" to "a pyre"
and some memorial markers to Hindu
wives who've sacrificed themselves in the
Sutee/Sutti/Sati
tradition.
I was able to position these (non-lamb) limbs
to "arm" the Tyger. "dare"
?
Is he in a stance of surrender or of accost ?
Here I am extending "sieze"
to "Caesar"
(adding,
without that asp-irant "adder",
where I should
CUT (the etymologies are with SECTIONal
SCISSORings)) and adorning my character
with a Romanesque head-dress
of laurel.
So it seems or SEAms the "forests
of the
night" are Poplar-Yew-ated
by more than
(Grand Old English) Oaks.
Just as William
Blake chose to (magic(k)ally)
spell "Tyger" in
a manner that (looks
better-balanced written down in
neato-calligraphically-cali(ine)br(i)ated
"What the hand?"
scroll-scrawl)
is not currently consensually considered
"correct" so also is HIS "seize"
more at ease as "sieze".
I super-imposed a chuffed-up "[sic]" to show
I know (and know YOU know) - but my "[sic]"
knows the slick <muse-"SICK>" of the
SNEEZE that's in SIEZE.
Let 'em <AtchooooooOoooOoOoooo !>.
This Roman Helmet is supposed to reinforce
the
Classical allusion evidenced by the laurel garland.
Hmm.... is Laurel Garland Judy's unknown sibling ?
Perhaps SHE would BE the "*GUMM*y Chummy"...
In "the heat of the moment", Caesar's
sneeze-seized fever sees the leaves (leave)
fallen in the fall, ignited and be-nighted.
Stentorian Centurion shine supine before
the gladiatorial glint of the fire-fighter !
The dents on this brassy helmet show it
originally served in daily duty and was
NOT saved solely for the ceremonial.
The "burning
bush" extinguished by a slope
of ice. The dents on the fireman's visor are
textually akin to the toothy "dents" of the
grim gang of frozen-fangs.
To emphasise the hill of chill - Enter
(top-left) the (drole) Arctic
Roll !
This is a "Cold Shoulder". It is a "Cold Shoulder
of Lamb", situated so that our friend the"Tyger"
might develop a hunch about his lunch...
...munch.......(*Credit)
crunch........thanks a bunch !
(...but not "...of bananas" because - as we know -
THEY come in hands, er and hands come in
Spades - and I'll now draw a veil...)
*
Hard to believe Wikipedia's notion that the
revival of the Arctic
Roll is due to the
"Credit
Crunch". Just HOW
cheap are desserts ?
Do we need to say "Cheep !" to get a Bird's Eye View ?
Perhaps the revival has something to do with
what "1" can or can't "Count On" as these
antique Arctic
antics, posted to YouTube
by dylanwatkins,
may hint :
I think the "Maths is Fun" routine would be
better suited "2" Fish
fingers.
Here we have the "Tyger"
with a "Chip on his
Shoulder" - that is a "Chip on his Cold
Shoulder of Lamb".
The (nice ?) (ice-) slice of Arctic Roll has
slipped and is en route to its
vermillion-hued landing ring.
The sub-zero touch of the ice-cream pudding
makes the "Tyger"'s
shoulders distinct(ured).
To the left : the COLD SHOULDER,
to the
right : CHIP ON SHOULDER.
Obviously, these additions give the Trophy
Shield a new status as <THE OLD BLOCK>.
This "art" is "Art Garfunkel". I like "his" ears.
Spot the "(Bright)
Eyes"... (Musical) Note that,
according to Mike
Batt, they too were (two)
"burning with fire",...
This is "twist",
as in chewing tobacco, (and
Tanita Tikaram's "Sobriety"
- how much
"Sobriety"
would Tanita Tikaram have if she
was Tanita Tot o' Rum
??) located like a
cigarette. I avoided Oliver.
That boy may be too prim to smoke but I'm
sure the "Wild"er
Dodger
would (H.R.Puf(f)nstuf)
and think Huck
Finn DOES..... unless
Mrs. Hippie's Master's just
posing with his pipe....
... sounds VERY DODGY.
"sinews"
as er.... naughty ovines. Some "
Wham-Bam ! Thank you Ram" plus boozy
BLACK SHEEP (in suspenders) OF THE FAMILY.
Dearly Deer to Thy Heart and Thy White Hart.
A second Pub Sign, succeeding the "Tiger Inn".
Like Burnt
Sienna Miller's Tiger, the animal is
similarly chained
and his shield is the same
shape as the talking "Tyger"'s.
"White
Hart Lane" is the location of Tottenham
Hotspur Football Club and this swift symbol
salutes the
heraldry that has latterly been
re-appropriated to badge modern sporting
TEAMS rather than INDIVIDUAL
Knights
of yore.
Of this there shall be more (if not Bobby Moore...)...
This is Tony
Hart, Tony (H)Artist
- a man, for
years, left in loco parentis to TEACH (encourage
and <<Wow>>) THE U.K.'s CHILDREN.
A duo of drum-sticks made from sugar-BEET.
"Little Things", getting excited about "2"
again.
2 lots of "2" (no "No.
2"s (SnooZzzZzzZzze
!)
2 Sugarbeet (up?) Drumsticks
2 Bongos...
(0 Bongs)
...take us 2 ("Take 5" ??) --->
[LISTEN !]
1 Beatnik, maaaaaaan...
...with (")dread(")locks...
He's more of a card than Lemmy from Mötorhead.
...and soon we shall see ANOTHER "Motor"/Petrol-head...
"Ceci n'est pas un Judge Dredd".
There's quite a lot of Soccer
(and later -
Snooker) referenced in this "Poetic Post Card".
This football is muddy as
it is bawling about
seventies glam band Mud's
huge hit :
"Tiger
Feet".
Their's is the riff.
Now we may pause to see those paws be-slippered.
Here is the "What..."
...in "West Ham United".
Thus *an* answer to "What the hammer ?" is -->
"Wot ! - "The Hammers".
"The Hammers" is the nickname given to
West Ham United's players.
Their club shield looks backwards (in this
"film")
to the heraldic White Hart shield and forwards to
the logo for the Tamil
TIGERs.
Screencast of Editing Footie Logo in my favourite
art
application : .Microsoft
Photo Draw 2000 Version 2.
-->
Screencast of Editing in Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 V2
To accompany the audio toilet-flush,
this
"chain" is ornamented
with Tiger's
Eye.
In response to the question : "In what furnace ?"
I have suggested a ruggy indoor FURiNESS
and a rugged outdoor Barrow-in-Furness.
Like "Gorgeous knickers," in
this is probably the ONLY gag (in this "piece")
that this sour, dour, glowerer actually finds
LAUGHABLY funny.
Not forgetting our host is a carnivore, we
hope
he's not a cannibal
as we see how interchangeable
the tongue and a bit of spiney-something-or-other are.
ROAR if you like it raw...
...and read the late Reay
Tannahill's readily red
in tooth and claw : "Flesh
& Blood".
Aston
Villa Football Club's catty mascot is as
leonine as a "Rory" (or an Aurora).
Does "PREPARED" mean we should look to cook
the meat we meet ?
"What the anvil ?"
Wot Aston Villa.
Must "dread"
anticipate ? This instant is
petrified, Jesus
and Judas,
pre-Christian
pre-cursors to a kiss
(without
K.I.S.S.).
I have illustrated the "dread
grasp" as being
the "Judas
Kiss".
To "grass someone up" is to betray them.
The ASP is in the grASP...
...the GRASp of the GRASS of...
...the "Snake in the Grass".
The Tiger
Snake that we saw before,
Sir Pent-Up, not heedin' the weedin' in Eden...
...too mopey, too "dope"y,
as ropey as the
"twist" insists - to be "pot"ted
henceforth.
From
"Grass" to "Gas" ; not that I'm northern ;
not that you'd notice ; a silen' siren.
The Tamil
Tigers' shield design. The rifles are
angled like West
Ham United Football Club's tools
- in a St.Andrew's
Cross configuration.
We'll see that again when next we are "Snookered".
The "clasp"
is on a Toy Tiger key-ring,
visually it echoes the question-mark -
?
¿
particularly clearly with this font.
Spears and Spears and Tigers and Tigers.
Paris
Hilton and Britney
"Spears" (clad in costly
costumes of Tiger-Print) represent "the
stars" as
they step on the "down"ed
spears of two classical
big-game hunters extracted from an ancient mosaic.
These "tears"
are both signifiers of sadness
and the soundalike "tiers" of this
tiger-decorated cake.
I believe German Zoos are called TierParks.
They are probably FULL of Tigers.
They're not full of much in "Hannibal
Brooks" -
but mostly, moistly <Empty of Elephant>.
One of Winner's Winners.
At last ! The arrival of our petrol-head....
or "Pets Rule" Head given the melange of
his motoring menagerie.
The convertible is a 1967 Sunbeam
Tiger, its
occupants "Isaac
van Amburgh and his Animals"
as "captured" by Sir
Edwin Henry Landseer.
A close-up of the "Tiger" name-branding on
the Sunbeam
roadster with the head of a
decapitated member of that species dangled
over the windscreen by the, lion-taming,
owner of some serious wrist-bling.
Athough the colours differ, we could imagine
that this is the delivery of our host ; he may
pray, instead for deliverence ; hence.
A front-seat passengering lamb is visible,
lyin'
down a"head" of the lion
lounging on the rear-shelf.
The pairing is a nod to the pre-Blake,
biblical text
exploring that pair of creatures living in harmony ;
although, if it comes from Revelation,
wouldn't
it be Death that'd put paid to any
cross-species bickering/unassailable
attacks of the munchies ?
Yikes ! The Google Zeitgeist says <the
lion
and the lamb> have been hi-jacked by
Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight".
~ Lyin' with the Lion ~
This newly-ready REDness added November 09 2009
*UN*Yikes ! A bit of research with a
trusty-tool-the-internet-was-made-for
such as the blueletterbible.org concordance
can bring forth the quote I was looking (in
the wrong place.....my (battered bat-turd)
brain) for. GIANT HURRAH !
Isa 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
And now back I return you to your (normal)
(abnormal) programming --->
They don't really work as shades or eye-patches
but they have very little screen-time obsuring
the "Tyger"'s
eyes. These circles are two
representations of the flag-wielding lamb that
is the symbol of the Moravian
Church that
William
Blake was involved with.
The "eye-patches" are brought forth to alter
their
rôle to that of rollers or wheels, "Follow"ing fast
on the heels of the crew in the car.
I missed the chance to add some homonymish
conkers
; that would have been nuts.
Ram Lambs aren't always allowed to keep those.
Their <not so "Merrie"> band practice
may be with rubber-bands.
Ouch.
The next "burning
bright" shows an underlying
swirling satellite picture of "Bright",
a region
of Australia,
<set alight> (Hmm that would
be Kiwi/Sowd
Iffrikin not strains of Strine)
and
"ram"paged over by forest
fires as indicated
by the map atop.
"Tyger
! Tyger ! Burning Bright in
the forest-fires
of the night,"
Where might you go FOR REST ? The forest ?
In a Fo(u)r-Rest (Poster) Bed ? This FURniture
exists, I did not hybridise it with Photo
Draw.
Screencast of <Extracting an Eye-Ball with
.Microsoft
Photo Draw 2000 Version 2.>
:
Screencast of "Extracting an Eyeball" with Microsoft Photo Draw
2000 V2
Finally, the "Eye
of the Tiger" pops up (and out)
as we progress in/return to sporting themes
(it's all "balls" (for Oddballs)).
I didn't have time or space to include the
pugilistic references I wanted to. I had gloves
and Harold
Lloyd as "Tiger" Sullivan to go but
went with the low-key but lengthy garb of a
golfer Tiger
Woods.
Hmm.... Tiger Woods, Jeremy
Irons,
Johnny Ball, Jeff Green.
"What the hand ?"
Tiger
Woods' ((')arm-less palm-less) hand
becomes the respectable receptacle for an
(")Eye(of
the Tiger)(")BALL POTted a la a
golfing (holy) hole-in-one.
We shall soon see what FURther "point" "he"
may be making...and switch to a sport that also
involves POTting but that might be more familiar
to a tiger given that many of those those felines
and Snooker
are native to India.
Tripping between golf
and snooker
and India
and Scotland.
These cues give clues to this
"frame" referring to the <indoor game>. Diagonal
whiteness on a blue background conveys the
St.Andrews cross of the Scottish flag.
St.Andrews,
of (golf) "course" is the home of
the <outdoor game>.
My Facial Hair Problem, an Early Revision
of a
Tache That Was Discarded, more image-editing
with my favourite .Microsoft
PhotoDraw 2000 V2.
--->
Screencast of Editing Lord Kitchener in Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 Version
2
Back in Britain, and backing Britain, Tiger
Woods'
digit says "Yer number's up !" to the
lily-livered and, accusatory and challenging
finds Lord
Kitchener up his sleeve in this
direct parody of the famous World War One
"Your
Country Needs You" recruitment poster.
Here's a second bout of skew-whiff
"symmetry" ; <see me try>.
Yikes ! "Tries" are in Rugby....
could have had a Tiger Rugby.
The wooden triangle is used in Snooker
to gather and group all the red balls.
"Adjusting My Balls" in .Adobe Premiere Pro. -->
Screencast of "Adjusting My Balls" in Adobe Premiere Pro
However, this is not a game of Snooker,
this is
William
Blake's "The Tyger"
and I have arranged
these balls so that the colours form a
< FLAME in the FRAME>.
The "FLAME FRAME" makes its
Hazard Warning Sign message clear.
Screencast of editing the "Risk of Fire" Triangle
Sign
in .Microsoft
Photo Draw. and .Adobe
Premiere Pro.
--->
Screencast of editing the "Risk of Fire" Triangle Sign in
Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2 and Adobe Premiere Pro
Magic ensues, indeed "flowers", as I "play
with
my balls". The lighter coloured examples in
the b(l)ackground will soon reveal themselves
to be STAGElights.
The gloved Snooker
referee links back
through "What hand ?" to
Tiger
Woods
and his earlier glove and potting.
The colour conjuring continues...
...and we discover the snooker-ball
stagelights
belong to comedian Dara
O'Briain who has
borrowed Blake's
face.
William, we see, had a hand in everything...
...so we have to "hand it to him" and
show his original handiwork.
I thank him for the fun.
The spoken audio quotage is from a famous
80's advertisng campaign that ukadverts
shared at YouTube --->
"Slam in the Lamb"
"Lamb-Like Wail" is an anagram of William Blake.