Hey, I've seen you make references to "burning bright in the forest of the night" in your metas on Eren and Levi before, and I was wondering, do you know if there's any special meaning that the poem The Tyger was used in that visual novel?
Hello Anon, and sorry to keep you waiting for so long! I wrote like half of this response a while ago but then took a little break, got caught up in new chapter excitement and went on a trip so couldn’t finish it till now…Anyway enough excuses.
Yes, there is absolutely great significance in using the poem The Tyger for the Burning Bright visual novel! Considering how the story told in poetic prose throughout the VN seems heavily built around some of the themes of the poem itself, and the key points regarding Levi’s thoughts of Eren relates to the eponymous tiger, it was pretty much the perfect poem to use for them!
(Side note: I also feel like a lot of the emotions and themes examined here seem very relevant to the current Eren’s mindset…)
First, let’s take examine the poem itself, or more specifically the first 2 stanzas since that’s the emphasized part within the VN, and is also the most important when it comes to grasping to Levi’s perception of Eren:
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?
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