3. ABOUT THE POET
• The poet George Leslie Norris was
versatile Welsh poet and short
story writer. He is considered as
most important Welsh writers of
the post war period.
• Welsh: One who belongs to Wales
a country in Great Britain known
for rugged coastline mountainous
national parks and distinctive
Welsh language.
George Leslie Norris
4. TONE OF THE POEM
• STYLE:
• The poem consists of 5 stanzas
each is made up of 4 lines. The
rhyme scheme is:
• abcb: abcb
• The poem has two distinct settings
The first setting is of the zoo
where the tiger is put in a cage.
• The second setting is that of the
natural wild habitat of the tiger.
The tone of the poet is full of regret
because he believes that this is not
the kind of life a tiger should be
living. There is also a tone of anger
that the tiger feels at being caged.
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THEME OF THE POEM
• The poet Leslie Norris wants to
convey that it is cruel to keep wild
animals in small enclosures like
zoo, away from their natural
habitat.
• The tigers feel angry, helpless
unhappy and longs to go back to
their own surroundings in the
forest.
6. 1ST STANZA
• The poet says that the tiger that is
confined in the zoo, moves around
in the cage under his bright
coloured skin. His feet are soft like
velvet. The tiger is angry as he is
away from leaps and bounds in
the jungle.
• the tiger is personified because
the poet refers him as ‘he’.
He stalks in his vivid stripes
The few steps of his cage
On pads of velvet quiet,
In his quiet rage.
Meaning:
Stalks: walks/follows
Vivid: bright coloured
Pads: soft paws of tiger
Rage: anger
7. POETIC DEVCES IN IST
STANZA
• METAPHOR: Tiger’s paws are
compared with velvet.
• ENJAMBMENT: sentence is
continuing to next line without
any punctuation mark.
• IMAGERY: he creates the image
about the tiger.(He stalks in his
vivid Stripes)
• Consonance: use of ‘s’ sound
(stalks,his,stripes)
METAPHOR
ENJAMBMENT
IMAGERY
CONSONANCE
ASSONANCE
OXYMORON
8. POETIC DEVICES
• ASSONANCE: use of vowel
sound ‘I’ (in his vivid stripes)
• OXYMORON: use of adjectives
opposite in meaning. (quiet
rage)
• PERSONIFICATION: the tiger is
personified
ASSONANCE
OXYMORON
PERONIFICATION
13. • Rhyme Scheme: abcb, (bars-
visitors)
• Personification: the tiger is
personified as ‘he’.
• Assonance : use of vowel sound
‘e’’ (he, locked, concrete, cell)
• Consonance: use of consonant
sounds ‘s’ (his, strength, bars)
• Alliteration: use of sound ‘b’ at the
start of two words(behind bars)
