The Tyger

Hope you have read the poem "THE TYGER" in your high school. It was written by William Blake(1757-1827) and published 1794, in his collection "Songs of Experience". This poem is one of the well known and most analyzed English poems. It's an irony. Blake compares brutal part of human soul with a Tiger. In his another poem "The Lamb" Blake wrote his impression on kind part of human soul by comparing it with a lamb. Both are a kind of Children rhyme with deep meaning. I like the 5th stanza. 

(He spelled as Tyger this instead of Tiger, in most of his poems he used different spellings for different words, to stress his impression on the particular thing)

THE TYGER 

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright 
In the forests of the night, 
What immortal hand or eye 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire? 

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet? 

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp? 

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee? 

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?