Category: The Tyger

William Blakes literary masterpiece, The Tyger has been scrutinized from literal and metaphorical points of view as he revisits his preferred dilemmas of innocence vs. experience. As for God, his creations are just beautiful and transcend the notions of good-evil. As is the case with his earlier poems, The Tyger gives no visible answers except…

The Tyger is arguably the most famous poem written by William Blake (1757-1827); its difficult to say which is more well-known, The Tyger or the poem commonly known as Jerusalem. The poems opening line, Tyger Tyger, burning bright is among the most famous opening lines in English poetry (its sometimes modernised as Tiger, Tiger, burning…

‘The Tyger’ is a poem by visionary English poet William Blake, and is often said to be the most widely anthologized poem in the English language. It consists entirely of questions about the nature of God and creation, particularly whether the same God that created vulnerable beings like the lamb could also have made the…