The Tyger by William Blake

The Tyger by William Blake is a six quatrains poem, the first and last quatrains are identical except the word "could" becomes "dare" in the second iteration/repetition. The poem is made of questions as it contained thirteen questions and only one full sentence. The poet is asking a question that embodies the central theme: Who created the tiger?. What kind of being could have created the perfect strong and frightening creation which is the "burning bright" tiger? Was it God or Satan?. He wonders how mighty and creative is the one who made the tiger and in which place could it be made, is it heaven or hell?. He also asks about the instruments that the creator of the tiger used to have this awesome, fine and strong creation and that about if this creator was pleased with this creation?. In "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?", the poet rises the question that did the creator of the lamb, which is a traditional Christian symbol for Jesus Christ, create the tiger? By this question the poet wants to say that God who created Jesus is the one who created the tiger and says that no one but God dares. The poem tackles the themes of the existence of evil and the awe and mystery of the creator.
The poet employs a cluster of figures of speech and allusions. He uses alliteration as in: burning/bright, frame/fearful. There is also a metaphore in the comparison of the tiger and his eyes to fire. The allusion in the poem is for God or Satan by "Immortal hand or eye" and for hell or heaven by "Distant deeps or skies".
Blake makes a call for transgression and conquering human limitations in order to gain more freedom, and accordingly be more powerful. Blake's 'Tyger', for example, the motif or the current image is the divine creativity. The significant idea illustrated in the poem is that of the differences between Divine creation and artistic creation and he warns anyone to exaggerate of being proud of his works because whatever the one makes will not be as perfect as God's