The Tyger’s attempt is to represent negative forces that humanity knows and has been unable to overcome. The poem is in Songs of Experience. It gives a different perspective on religion. It includes both the obvious and the incomprehensible. It gives a more detailed account of both than they could independently.
The speaker of the poem “The Tyger” begins by asking the tiger, “What immortal eye or hand/dare frame thy frightening symmetry?”. When that heart’started’ to beat, the speaker wonders what kind of divine being could have created it. In comparing the maker to a Blacksmith, he thinks how much iron and heater would have been required for this venture and what smith could have made them. The speaker also ponders how the maker might have felt after the task was completed. “Did he laugh at the work he made?”
At first, the Tiger appears as a mystic image. Blake’s tiger becomes a symbol to examine the proximity of evil. While being awestruck at the sheer beauty of the tiger and its style, the speaker also holds back in a sickening fear from the ethical implications. The author carefully integrates the issue of ethical duty with physical power.
The Tyger is a poem that leaves no questions unanswered. The writer wants us to be amazed at the complexity of God’s creation, his immense power, and perfect will. This poem shows the unfathomable nature of malevolent in a way that’s not only impossible to deny, but also difficult to explain. The open wonder of “The Tyger” is different from the guiltless certainty of “The Lamb,” a child’s belief in an altruistic world.
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