... to his choice usage of "burning- - fire - and "bright- - obviously signifying a high degree of light. Even at this early stage of the poem, Blake is making it abundantly clear that he wishes the Tyger to take on a menacing and, fundamentally, evil fazade. The reader can ascertain this idea from ... that, perhaps, God in Heaven could actually have created this awesome and fearful creature. Referring directly to the Bible and, in particular, to Milton's Paradise Lost, Blake goes on to ask "On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?- (7-8). In Christian mythology, it ...

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