The Symmetry: A World with Both Lamb and Tiger

Why did God create a calm and bad creature? Why did God create a world full of blood, pain and fear? "Wyman Blake" wrote "Tyger" in 1794 and included it in his "Innocent and Experience Song" to guide the reader to a journey of faith. Through a series of unanswered questions, William Blake motivates readers to question God. The Negro saw the necessity of world balance and suggested to the reader that God created the good and evil world, so that humans can more clearly see kindness through comparison and comparison.

The theme is the central idea of ​​this verse, and one of the themes of "tiger" is that God created bad things and good things. The tiger symbolizes the savageness of the world and the power of wildlife, and the lamb symbolizes the innocence of the world and the power of nature. In the twentieth line, "Who built a lamb", he might have made a tiger as God made a lamb. When comparing a lamb and a tiger, good and evil found another theme. A lamb represents goodness, and a tiger represents evil. Lambs are very natural, but tigers are very mechanical. Lines 13 to 15: "What is a hammer? What is a chain? What is a stove? What is an anvil? What is terrible grasp?" Represents the mechanical properties of a tiger I will. Line 10 "Can you twirl the heart muscle?" Indicates that the tiger is bad. The Industrial Revolution is an era when everyone starts using machines to process everything.

This verse casts doubt: Who dares to become a terrible beast like a tiger ("frame")? Then it continues the dangerous process of making a tiger from making a hammer and anvil from the furnace to make molten metal. In the fifth quarter, the poet asked questions. Who made you a lamb? Black hinted that God made a calm lamb and a fierce tiger, but he may regret having made such a ferocious beast. The end of the poem is the same as the beginning of the poem, the poet itself is "symmetrical", but the "may" in the fourth line is replaced with "dare".