The Tyger By William Blake
William Blake's poem The Tyger is a poem that alludes to the darker side of creation. He suggests that maybe when God created the earth and Jesus that he may have also created evil, “Did he who made the lamb make thee?”(Blake 751).
The poem begins with the speaker asking a fearsome tiger what kind of divine being could have created it: "What immortal hand or eye/ could frame they fearful symmetry?" Every following stanza contains further questions, all of which refine this first one. In the first verse, the author compares the fierceness of a tiger to a burning presence in dark forests. He wonders what immortal power could create such a fearful beast. You already begin to feel a sense of evil. “Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
in the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (Blake 751).
Here the author compares the burning eyes of the tiger to some distant fire that only someone......
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