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    The poem describes a tiger burning bright in the forest at night and poses a series of rhetorical questions about who could have created such a fearful and symmetrical creature. It wonders about the tiger's eyes and wings, the hand that could seize its fire, and the tools used to forge its brain and shape its heart. It questions whether God smiled upon his creation of such a fierce beast when he made the lamb.

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    The Tiger: Book of English Verse: 1250-1900

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    The Tiger

    By William Blake (1757-1827)

    TIGER, tiger, 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 or thine eyes?
    O what wings dare he aspire?
    What the hand dare seize the fire?

    And what shoulder and what art


    Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
    Ad when thy heart began to beat,
    What dread hand and 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?

    Tiger, tiger burning bright


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

    -From Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford


    Book of English Verse: 1250-1900.

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