"Compare and contrast William Blake's "The Tyger" (1793) and William Wordsworth's "Strange fits of passion I have known" (1798/1800). ... Wordsworth's poems were not as heavily symbolic as Blake's. Wordsworth had a great love of nature and his depictions of the world are far more naturalistic than Blake's mythical, symbolically charged descriptions. ... This poem, one of four "Lucy" poems included in the second volume of "Lyrical Ballads" (1800), describes the poets premonition of death as he travels towards Lucy's house. ... Blake and Wordsworth came from v...

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