The Tyger

William Blake * Track #9 On Songs of Experience

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Album Songs of Experience

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William Blake

1789

The Tyger by William Blake

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1789

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William Blake

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From Blake’s Songs of Experience. published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century life during the time of King George III, known — ironically given the terrible social conditions of the time — as the Romantic Era. Each poem...

The Tyger Annotated

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 thy heart began to beat
What dread hand? & 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 watered 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?

The Tyger Q&A

Who wrote The Tyger's ?

The Tyger was written by William Blake.

When did William Blake release The Tyger?

William Blake released The Tyger on Thu Jan 01 1789.

what does it mean by what immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry

The underlying theme in Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience, are the inherent qualities of childhood and adult age. In this case, as contraposition to The Lamb (the corresponding poem from Songs of Innocence), the tiger is the symbol of the predatory, destructive nature of adulthood. In general,...

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