The Tyger
Burning bright poem
"The Tyger" is a poem by William Blake, published in *Songs of Experience* (1794).
Its famous opening—Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night—poses questions about creation: what force could fashion something so fearsome and beautiful?
The poem is often paired with "The Lamb" from Blake's companion collection, contrasting innocence and experience.
- BlakeAnglo-Saxon personal name
- Romantic poetryFeeling-centered literary movement
- fearfulFull of fright
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- burningCombustion in progress
bright · forest · night · furnace · immortal · hammer · anvil · chains · fire · stripes · fierce · creator · dread · sinew · heart · deadly · terrors · stars
- PoemsThe Raven, Ozymandias, Invictus, Paradise Lost, Beowulf
- William Blakeilluminated books, Jerusalem, Milton, Orc, Albion