What are the spears of the stars and what are the tears?

These
two lines are generally believed to be anto John 's Paradise Lost,
specifically these lines:

They,
astonished, all resistance lost,
All courage, down their weapons dropt.

Here, Milton describes the fall of the angels who allied themselves
with Satan before God created the world. As they find themselves defeated, they surrender. In
"," Blake is asking us to consider, "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
The question, "what immortal hand or eye..." is not a rhetorical one. Blake is asking
whether it is possible that God could have made two such disparate beasts, or whether it is
possible that Satan had a hand in designing the ferocity of the Tyger.

In
Blake's poem, the "stars" seem to represent these angels, throwing aside their weapons
and weeping at the sight of the Tyger. Blake questions whether God smiled upon his work, knowing
that it had occasioned defeat in those who followed Satanor whether Satan smiled upon it, after
all.

There are many allusions in "The Tyger." Very little about it
is straightforward, and the use ofcan often seem nonintuitive. It is important to appreciate the
poem in the context of the many intertextual references Blake uses to explore the ferocity and
strangeness of his Tyger. I have attached a link below to an interesting resource on the
topic.

href="https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/an-introduction-to-the-tyger">https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/an-in...