William Blake's 1793 poem "The Tyger" has many interpretations, but its main purpose is to question God as creator. His poetic techniques generate a vivid image that encourages the reader to see the Tyger as a horrible and terrible being. The speaker addresses the question of whether the same God who created the lamb, a gentle creature, could also have formed the Tiger and all his darkness. This question is addressed through many poetic devices, including rhyme, repetition, allusion, and symbolism, all of which appear throughout the poem and are combined to create a strong image of the Tyger and a less-than-thorough interpretation of its creator. is directly addressed to the Tyger, which is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "a large carnivorous feline quadruped." It sets up the theme of night, accompanied by darkness and evil. The third and fourth lines pose the first of many repetitive and, in a sense, unanswerable questions: What kind of creator has the ability to create something with such "frightening symmetry" (4)? The second stanza then asks the same question in a different format, asking where the Tyger comes from: heaven or hell. Starting in line 9, the speaker uses powerful imagery to ask again what God could have created the Tyger. The diction describes the Tyger as evil, with a "twisted" heart (10). Lines 13-16 constitute the fourth stanza and compare the creator to a blacksmith. Lines 19 and 20 ask two different questions from the others: “Did he smile at his work to see?/Did he who made the Lamb make you?” These lines ask the Tyger if his creator was happy to see what monstrous being he had created, and if this was the same creator who had created the pure and innocent Lamb. In a sense, middle of paper......and allows the reader to find the deeper meanings of the poem. The Tyger represents darkness and evil, while the Lamb is the exact opposite. The blacksmith in lines 13 to 16 symbolizes the creator. These depictions affect the reader by making it not only a poem about animals and creation, but also a discussion of a benevolent God creating something evil. All of these poetic techniques work together to create images that show the Tyger as malevolent and evil, and the question of whether or not God could create such a monster is never completely resolved. Evaluating this poem, the reader understands that it is not really about the Tyger, but about its creator. Even with so many literary devices used to enhance the reader's understanding, the final question remains without a clear answer: did the same God who fashioned the Tyger also form the Lamb ??