A-Z POETRY

The Tyger is a poem in Blake’s Songs of Experience. The Tyger, with its strikingly powerful words, serves as a counter to the innocence and tenderness of The Lamb, another poem in Songs of Innocence. In The Tyger, the speaker focuses on the subject of creation, asking who could have made such a terrifying beast as the tiger. The speaker talks about the fearful features of the tiger and wonders “did he who made the Lamb make thee?“ before he ends the poem with the question with which he began, “What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”. It is one of the most analysed poems and Cambridge calls it the “the most anthologized poem in English”.