Thursday 12 May 2011

What question is repeatedly asked in the poem "The Tyger"?

The question
that is asked repeatedly in 's "" is who is the creator of this "fearful
symmetry," this correspondence of evil that exists in the awesome forces of
nature?

In six quatrains, the question about the nature of the tiger's
creator is asked in various ways. The main question is asked in the fifth stanza: "Did he
who made the Lamb make thee?" The speaker asks this question because he wonders how to
reconcile the creation of something that is as dangerous and deadly as a tiger with that of the
gentle and harmless lamb.

Perhaps, in order to have innocence and beauty,
experience and evil must exist. This duality is necessary in life. In fact, William Blake
envisioned all reality as a duality of good and evil, peace and violence, and innocence and
experience. Blake writes of these issues in his Songs of Innocence and Innocence and
of Experience.

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