The Tiger by Blake

Blake's "The Tyger" is a poem about the nature of creation, much as is his earlier poem from the Songs of Innocence, "The Lamb." However, this poem takes on the darker side of creation, when its benefits are less obvious than simple joys. Along the poem the doming feeling of both text and author is surprise. Blake's simplicity in language and construction contradicts the complexity of his ideas. This poem is meant to be interpreted …

…and Daedelus; to Prometheus in line 8; to Lucifer and his angels in lines 17 and 18; and also to the God of Old Testament The simple use of exclamation points after the word "Tiger" help to emphasize the urgency of the question. The union of terror and awe gives the work a tone of religious reverence which is mature when you consider that the response to the tiger could have been easily simplified to one of fear.