The Tyger
poem by Blake
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The poem “The Tyger” from an edition of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
The Tyger, poem by William Blake, published in his Songs of Innocence and of Experience at the peak of his lyrical achievement.
The tiger is the key image in the Songs of Experience, the embodiment of an implacable primal power. Its representation of a physicality that both attracts and terrifies is expressed in the poem’s first stanza:
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Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
The next four stanzas elaborate on the concept of a creator forging a savage, beautiful creature. Blake posed an age-old puzzle in the poem’s question “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”