Going home...Hovis Bread, introduced a generation to The New World Symphony. British Airways, sadly, tarnished the Bell Song from Lakme. The Three Tenors, for the Italian Football World Cup, introduced Nessun' Dorma from Turandot, to a massive audience.
The return of Tiger Woods to the golf scene could be introducing a large audience, I hear, to William Blake's -
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Circa: 1794.
The work is contained in Blake's collection, 'Songs of Experience'. (There are another five verses).
Despite the interesting metaphor, could there be an unexpected surge of poetic interest being harnessed?
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