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What Does The Tyger Mean

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William Blake’s “The Tyger” contains frequently unanswered questions throughout its entirety. Blake lets his reader awe at the complexity of creation with the tiger, giving the sense of the sheer magnitude of God’s power, and along with the absolute strength of divine will. Blake’s perspective of experience in this poem involves a complex acknowledgment of what is unexplainable in our world, suggesting evil as the prime example of something that cannot be denied, but will not withstand simplistic explanation, either. I believe that “The Tyger” suggests that experience is more desired than innocence because there is wisdom created with experience. With “The Tyger” the speaker is acknowledging that there is evil in the world, yet he is still
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