I love this poem. Its just about the awesomeness of creation. Like how you feel when you stop and think about how impossible and perfect everything is. Its magical.

@MrTubularBalls

2 жыл бұрын

That's not what the poem is about.

what a pleasure to share two of the best together.....thank you

Beautiful! This line lept out to me: "In the forest of THY night"- Blake says "of THE night..." BUT I LIKE THIS: it IS the Tyger's own night, with all its aloneness, stillness, awareness and sudden, dreadful beauty....

@robertloader9826

4 жыл бұрын

It's 'the'.

Patti has a way of lending soul to the poem, I suspect as intended by the great Blake.

wow thanks for uploading this...perfect..

Patti Smith Reading the ~*ORIGINAL*~ manuscript of William Blake's 'The Tyger' that was lent to her by the British Museum!!! 💎💖😍 Go on... Bury me, I am dead! 😳

@albertscheichstein4242

5 жыл бұрын

i understood that she had a chance to hold it in the museum and look at it. And in this performance shes just chanting it and reading it from her personal notebook. I dont think that William Blake used PostIT notes :D

❤patti Smith

Beautiful ♥️

Beautiful!

she is so awessssoooome

Great William Blake poem and recessatation!

She's the greatest ever

Beautiful

amazing

So very wonderful !

Amazing

Red John

Strange if this reading is based on what she saw in the original manuscript. In that case the poem has been very widely published with an error in it. The generally published version goes "in the forests of the night" while she reads "forest" in both places. Personally I much prefer "forests", but that's just my silly opinion.

@bartomeuprohens9403

5 жыл бұрын

You are right: "forests" in the original: www.blakearchive.org/images/songsie.c.p50-42.100.jpg

@loriscunado3607

2 жыл бұрын

She is careless and imposes her own Selfhood on Blake's poem.

@user-id8sc4nv2s

7 ай бұрын

right......

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 seize 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 water'd 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?

my friend asoom recommended this and all I can say is WOW

1:42 ～ Start singing.

anyone seen the movie Altar Boys

wow this crazy, wasn't Patti's close friends name who died young Robert also?

What hymn music is this borrowed from.?

Not the slightest strain in her voice. How can people do that. That was a great version.

RED JOHN.

I’m assuming Patti gave the book back to the Met...

1:42

Red John was here.

I prefer the Tangerine Dream version of this poem, but she has a very interesting voice.

I liked the composition, but it missed the point. Blake reflects on the tiger with amazement as he contemplates its Creator. The music has no life in it. The poem itself is dramatic in its sound, but the music is not. The poem is alive with excitement; the music comes across as a dirge, as though Blake were in mourning. But he was not: he was musing on the Creator of the tiger!

Red John's version is better.

@kisuke2008

6 жыл бұрын

LoL

The dangerous lives of the alter boys

I prefer Tangerine Dream

@paulpower7018

3 жыл бұрын

TD is the original electronic music

Tyger

yep, AG was _great_ in his way but he was a bit of a ham too...

simmetry should be pronounced simmetrAI

@DukowskiX

7 жыл бұрын

Do you have any theoretical support of that? Although I heard that, I have never found proof of that supposed "old" pronunciation, actually for me has more sense to keep it as it is since it breaks the symmetry with the word symmetry, which is a super good example to transition from romanticism to modernism where expected structures are defied (like in Eliot's Prufrock where every expected structure is broken intentionally)

@matheusdesouzaalmeida8526

7 жыл бұрын

Well, the rhyme I think it's a good support. Althought, of course, it doesn't make her reading worse or something like that. It's brilliant: the way she reads the poem, making a sort of lullaby, is an incredible way to strengthen the proximity between the Tyger and the Lamb. I'm relistening this video for two weeks.

@laszlotarnay6788

7 жыл бұрын

It is indeed wonderful how she reads it. In fact, it was more a rule than a violation that rhyming was based on spelling instead of pronunciation. Shakespeare used the couples love/move or dove/move as rhyming couplets. So one should follow the rule for pronunciation to highlight the conceptual tension in the rhymes.

@blusterybumblebee3958

7 жыл бұрын

Nope, it's an eye rhyme (meaning that it visually looks like a rhyme but it doesn't rhyme when you pronounce it). Therefore she is pronouncing it correctly.

@robertloader9826

4 жыл бұрын

Nope.

Sorry, but this melody is unsuitable to that great poem.

A CAPELLA

impossible fish contortions

One Tyger, dead on the stage.

*tyger

Very badly narrated

The singing made me cringe, oof, that's rough

The dangerous lives of the alter boys

I prefer Tangerine Dream