In William Blake's book "Songs of Experience" his poem entitled "The Tyger" is an inquisitive look at creation. He vividly describes the ferocious persona of the animal and rhetorically asks, "What immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry (Songs of Experience, 35)?" Blake contrasts the creation of the tiger with that of the lamb, from "Songs of Innocence."
             In regards to reputation, these creatures are on the opposite end of the spectrum. The tiger has a fear-inspiring persona. It is ferocious and intimidating. The lamb on the other hand is innocent and fragile. It is a dependent and childlike animal.
             Although, these animals are complete opposites the same hand created them both. Blake's question is 'why.' Why would a creator of such an innocent animal, the lamb, create an intimidating beast like the tiger? He doesn't tell directly readers why God created the tiger. Instead, he goes directly to the source and asks the tiger "who created you." Blake asks this question in masterful and very creative way.
             Blake uses simple, almost elementary, language to get his complex idea across. He doesn't saturate the poem with jargon or three syllable words. Blake also uses an unorthodox spelling of "tyger." This incorrect spelling of tiger is used to show readers that our stereotype of the animal is inaccurate. Blake inaccurately labeled an animal that we typically mislabel. We may see the tiger as being evil, but the same hand that created the lamb created it.
             Blake uses a trochaic tetrameter pattern in "The Tyger." The poem contains six four-line stanzas, and also uses pairs of rhyming couplets. One exception is Blake's rhyme pairing of the words "eye" and "symmetry." He wrote, "What immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry (Songs of Experience, 34)?" Although, these words ...