Does god create both gentle and fearful creatures? If he does

what right does he have? Both of these rhetorical questions are

asked by William Blake in his poem “The Tyger.” The poem takes

the reader on a journey of faith, questioning god and his nature. The poem

completes a cycle of questioning the creator of the tyger, discussing how it

could have been created, and then returns to questioning the creator again.

Both questions about the tyger’s creator are left unanswered. William Blake

uses rhythm, rhyme, and poetic devices to create a unique effect and to

parallel his theme in his work “The Tyger.”

William Blake’s choice of rhythm is important to his poem

“The Tyger” because it parallels the theme of the poem, that the

tyger may have been made by god or another harsher creator. Most

of the poem is written in trochaic tetrameter as can be seen in line

three, when Blake says, “What immortal hand or eye.” This rhythm is

William Blake’s use of rhyme greatly affects his work “The

William Blake’s choice of poetic devices greatly affect his

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