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What Does Tyger Mean

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Blake presents the tiger as dangerous in his poem Tyger. This is evident when he writes “What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?” The use of the interrogative sentence suggests the poet’s fascination with the idea that something so powerful and dangerous has been created. The use of the synecdoche in ‘immortal hand or eye’ shows how powerful the being creating the tiger is which reiterates its dangerous nature as nobody is sure where it came from. The use of the adjective ‘fearful’ describes the tiger’s appearance as being immediately frightening, reinforcing his dangerous strength. Blake seems to be questioning the idea that God could create something that is so beautiful and yet so dangerous and destructive. He
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