The poem, “The Tyger”, by William Blake is very spiritual and it ponders on the idea of God and the Devil. Throughout the poem, he questions Gods creations such as the tiger and the lamb. How could he create something so powerful and then something so weak? Blakes central idea in the poem is essentially that God can create good and bad things. The author of the poem is William Blake. Blake was born on November 28, 1757 in London, England. When Blake was just ten years old, he claimed to have spiritual visions of trees full of angels. The Bible was clearly a huge influence on his life; therefore, he had an immense amount inspiration to write poetry with his faith infused into his work. Due to the fact that he had a love for Gothic art, he was …show more content…
Because of the fact the tiger is so strong and can wipe out anything in its way with one swipe of a paw, no one could underestimate the tiger. Next, the second stanza goes on to talk about where the tiger was created. Blake questions exactly if the tiger was created in hell or heaven. Whoever or whatever created the tiger is a very powerful mysterious thing because they created something like the tiger; therefore, they had to be more powerful than the tiger itself. This creator of the tiger must have had to be something supernatural. The third and fourth stanzas continue to question the tiger’s creation and creator. At the end of the fourth stanza, the tone of the poem starts to get more intense. Next, in the fifth stanza starts giving the reader a clearer picture that it was God who created the tiger. Blake uses this stanza to say that the angels were drawing down and the creator of the tiger could create something so gentle and pure like the lamb and also the tiger. Lastly, the sixth stanza Blake changes “could” to “dare”. By doing this, “Now, instead of questioning the ability of the creator, Blake questions his nerve. Like when you triple-dog dare someone, Blake seems to challenge the courage of whatever/whoever tried or tries to contain ("frame") the big, powerful, mysteriousness of the Tyger” (“Schmoop Editorial