ndemnation of evil, the Tyger, or the creator of them. It is an appreciation of the force of such a creator who could ôshoulderö and ôtwistö the ôsinewsö of such a creation (Blake 1).
Despite the speaker knowing God made ôgoodö in The Lamb, the adult in The Tyger is aware there are no answers about the meaning of life or the contraries of good and evil. Nevertheless, such a condition is appreciated by the speaker and makes him unable to resist asking The Tyger what type of magnificent creator must be responsible for its existence, ôWhat the hammer? What the chain? / In what furnace was they brain? / What the anvil? What dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?ö (Blake 1). We can see the doubt in this poem about what kind of force might dare create such a terrorizing beast as The Tyger (manÆs capacity for evil), in contrast to the belief that such a being is all good in The Lamb, ôHe is meek, and He is mild, / He became a little child. / I a child, and thou a lamb, / We are called by His name. / Little Lamb, God bless thee! / Little Lamb, / God bless thee!ö (Blake 1). It is innocence that gives way to experience in human nature and pits the forces and capacity of individuals for good and evil against one another. However, Blake vie
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