Compare and contrast the way in which the animals are presented by Ted Hughes" "A View of A Pig" and "Tyger, Tyger" by William Blake.
In this essay I will compare the two poems, one by William Blake ("Tyger, Tyger"), and the other one by Ted Hughes ("A View of A Pig"). I will compare the poems by looking at language features and vocabulary. "Tyger, Tyger" describes a tiger hunting for food in the forest. This is an older poem in which Blake asks: why did God create the Tyger if he created a Lamb? Ted Hughes" "A View of A Pig" is a morbid poem. The pig is dead and lying in a barrow, waiting to be cut up for meat. This is a modern poem.
The main difference between the two poems is that one is very much alive (Tyger, Tyger), and the other is about a dead pig that didn't have a good life and is ready for sausages and bacon. In the "Tyger, Tyger" poem, the tiger is looking for food and struts around enjoying its life, unlike the pig. That is another of their differences.
This paragraph is all about "A View of A Pig". I think that the pig has had a short life, and not much was accomplished in it. When it mentions the pig in the "barrow" with wounds to its neck "It weighed, they said, as much as three men". That must mean that it was fed well (ready for the slaughter). The pig is a bored animal and lived its life as it was forced to live it. I think the pig killed itself.
"Tyger, Tyger" by William Blake is about one particular tiger that is hunting for food, and makes the most of its life. It mentions the tiger "burning bright" and "immortal". I think that this means that it is not normal and has differences from other tigers, as the poem is about this tiger only. The tiger is hunting for food, but the pig is dead where the tiger is alive.
My conclusion is that the poems present one of the animals as very alive and hunting for food, while the other is presented dead, awaiting being cut up for food.