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William Blake is the author of this poem Tyger.This poem was published in the Songs of Experience. The Tyger is a sister poem to " The Lamb". The poem is a diffrent imaging for Genesis. The poem identified the Gods creative process, also it shows how a person is changed by a situation. the line "Could frame thy fearful symmetry" shows how a person could lose their innocence. A common question that is asked while reading this poem is "Why is there bloodshed an pain and horror?", but the story is interpenetrated as being overwhelmed by the beauty and dreadfulness of the natural world. William blake makes this poem by baseing it on bible refrences and allusions of hell and heaven, good and bad. This whole poem is about your religious beliefs, really its based on what you think. Mostly on the mans life on earth in the garden of eden.

The Tyger

By William Blke

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests 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? By Amber Schneck and Brianna Livezey