Analysis of the poem The Tyger by William Blake

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Analysis of the poem The Tyger by William Blake

The Tyger by William Blake 

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, & what art, 
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 
And when thy heart began to beat, 
What dread hand? & 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 water'd 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?


1st Stanza
-         “Forest of the night” suggests the darkness of the world of experience. The darkness is so opaque. The only light seems to be the tiger. The dark seems to be the sense of selfhood.
-         The tyger seems to be death. It is impossible for the narrator to conceive the nature of the creator. In the poem The Lamb, creator is defined as kind, innocence as the lamb. Therefore, the narrator is confused that who is the creator- tyger or lamb.
-         “fearful symmetry” – it suggests two features
(i)                The tyger shall kill the human being
(ii)              It refers to the presence of certain natural world. The natural world manifests the definitive order. The order is manifested by God. It implies the natural order and became the immense beauty. The tyger in that sense is a primal natural force. For the narrator, the primal thing is not to step out from the forest.
-         The creator is the superhero, someone who can fly, who seize the fire in his hands.
-         The narrator tries to think about the nature of the creator. The tyger suggest the power. The power is created by the creator. Then the creator is more powerful than the tyger.

Stanza 3
-         Draws the physicality of the Tyger
-         Draws the immense power of the creator

Stanza 3
-         “the series of questions but not a single answer”
-         The narrator looks at the tyger and ask the nature of the tyger through the series of questions.
-         There is no development in the poem.


-         Star symbolizes the reason and water symbolizes the nature of time and place. (Introduction to Songs of Innocence and Experience)
-         Humanity uses the tune of reason and emphasis the nature of the creator. In each of the question, the narrator generates disposition in convincing the nature of the creator.
-         The non-getting answer suggest that the creator would be something else rather than the questions asked by the narrator.
-         The nature of the creator will remain transparent to human. The realization of this failure of humanity –
·        Defines the rationality humanism
·        Humanity becomes humble, immense /destroy the selfhood that enhance humanity
-         In the lamb, the narrator imagines the nature of the creator with innocence. But in this poem, the narrator has lost his innocence. The creator is no more “meek” and “mild” and he seems to be the tyger.
-         The collapse of the reason suggests the collapse of the self. the narrator is into the vision that the lamb and the tyger are not mutually explicit different characters. It is impossible to examine the nature of the creator in the human sense.
-         When the human soul reconciles the error of the reason along with the selfhood, the creator in himself neither innocence nor powerful.
-         The creator is nothing at all. This is the movement in the poem “The Tyger”. These questions are symbolism of the perception of the creator as nothingness.
-         The tyger seems to be fearful to the god. Both of these narrative strategy rooted into the perception.
-           The creator is neither “The Lamb” nor “The Tyger”. The creator is absolutely nothing. The only way to know the creator when we became the creator. The knowing is the phenomenon which symbolizes the creator becomes the lamb and the child.
-         Through the series of questions, the narrator of the poem moves out from the human perception.
-         In the last line of the poem, the use of “dare” suggests the majestic possibility.     
  
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