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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 the 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 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?
(1794)
- The poem “THE TYGER” are present twelve questions, which they not receive answers. The first stanza is equal at The Tyger appears powerful, cruel, beautiful, strong, mighty, terrifying, horrid, violent, dangerous and harmonithe last and the only difference is the word “could” which change in “dare”.
- For to describe the poet's attitude to both the tyger and its creator I would choose admiration, awe, terror and wonder.
- The Tyger is violent and bad, but also beautiful, full of energy, elegant.
- The Tyger is seen by the poet as the contrast of the Lamb. Infact, the power, magnificence and perfection of this terrible creature can not only be the result of creation by God, yet the same God who had created the obedient lamb. Then there is the contrast between the innocence of children and evil of adults.
- The rhytm is hammering and speedy.
