Interesting Images

[bendk]

As much as I enjoy Rignolo's Studio, it doesn't seem to prompt comment on the images posted. Hence this thread. I think this is an interesting image. Playing the devil's advocate against a religious perspective, it puts me in mind of the question posed in William Blake's poem "Tyger" (posted below). But from a secular point of view, I think that compassion for life - not just human life - is an important moral stance. Unfortunately, to continue living, one is forced to consume other forms of life. To me, to claim the existence of a diety is to admit sadistic design. When the continuance of life is predicated on the destruction of life what other reasonable conclusion can one come to? All that aside, I like what the symbol of Christ has come to mean for most people.


Tyger (from Songs of Experience)
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 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?
1794

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