The Tyger Allusion

In the critical analysis of William Blake’s The Tyger, Thomas M. Curley explains how Blake uses allusion to the Bible and metaphor of God’s creatures to describe the divine paradox between innocence and experience that humans cannot grasp.(-but not for an all-powerful God to create) He describes that The Tyger is composed of questions from a child’s curiosity about how an all-powerful being could create both the good and evil that exist in the world, which furthers his theme that human aspect is restricted. Curley explains that Blake illustrates a contrast between the opposites of good and bad through the tiger and the lamb. The lamb symbolizes a positive ideology of innocence because it is a biblical allusion to Jesus, who was a sacrifice for
In his essay, Curley describes that the speaker of the poem as naive or childlike. God created children, who ask lots of questions to help them make sense of the world they are living in and just beginning to learn about, which is why this poem consisted of so many questions. However, humans do not understand God because he is so magnificent. Therefore, the answers to the speaker’s questions, the idea of divine creation, and why God created both good and evil are incomprehensible to humans

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Thomas M. Curley explains that William Blake uses animals, a lamb and a tiger, in The Tyger to portray how unlike God’s aspect, humankind’s perspective of good and evil is limited. The Tyger begins with a childlike speaker asking many questions that are concerned with God and His divine creation. The questions are left unanswered because they “are unanswerable” (Curley,1). Such idea of God creating an evil tiger, which preys on the innocent lamb, its contrast, are beyond human understanding.