Blake-Tiger
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The poem The Tiger by William Blake is an inquiry into the meaning of the totality of creation, and who exactly has forged such a world in which “Lambs” as well as “Tigers” are the reality. The speaker begins the first stanza by asking the question of “What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” In other words, only something immortal, some unseen presence could have crafted such as fearful symmetry as represented by the Tiger who burns bright in the forests of the night. The second stanza continues this line of questioning by wondering what “hand dare seize the fire?” that could create the Tiger. However, in stanza three the speaker wonders “what dread hand forged thy dread feet?” In other words, even though the speaker seems to be suggesting that the immortal, unseen hand of God forged the Tiger, he implies in stanza three that only a hand capable of dread could forge such dread feet as those that belong to the Tiger. The speaker continues his line of questioning in the fourth stanza by wonder
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Approximate Word count = 709
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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