The Tyger
The Tyger - meaning Summary
Creation Questioned in Awe
Blake addresses the tiger with a mix of admiration and terror, using repeated questions to probe how a single Creator could produce such fearful beauty. The poem contrasts ferocity and divine craft, asking whether the same maker who made the gentle lamb could also have made the tiger. It frames theological and moral uncertainty about creation, power, and the nature of good and evil.
Read Complete AnalysesTyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forest 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? And What shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and 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?
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