William Blake's poem The Tyger is a poem that alludes to the darker side of creation, when its benefits are less obvious than simple joys. Along the poem the doming feeling of both text and author is surprise. Blake's simplicity in language and construction contradicts the complexity of his ideas. This poem is meant to be interpreted in comparison and contrast to "The Lamb," showing the "two contrary states of the human soul" with respect …showed first 75 words of 499 total…

…showed last 75 words of 499 total…and Daedelus; to Prometheus in line 8; to Lucifer and his angels in lines 17 and 18; and also to the God of Old Testament The simple use of exclamation points after the word "Tiger" help to emphasize the urgency of the question. The union of terror and awe gives the work a tone of religious reverence which is mature when you consider that the response to the tiger could have been easily simplified to one of fear.