Argument Essay: The Creation Of The Tyger

The third stanza is centered on the question of what kind of bodily strength and skills could create the Tyger. The first two lines question “what shoulder, & what art, /Could twist the sinews of thy heart?” (9-10), which are simply asking what strength and beauty could twist the tissues of the Tyger’s heart. The next question Blake asks is “when thy heart began to beat, / What dread hand? & what dread feat?” (11-12). Here, Blake wants to know that when the Tyger’s heart began to beat, did its creator regret making it and if its creation was a mistake. “Dread feet” (12) is a double meaning to the word feat. Feat means an achievement that requires great courage, skill or strength, meaning that Blake is questioning if the creator suddenly dreaded the achievement he had just made by the creation of the Tyger. Once the third stanza is analyzed in its complete entirety, the reader gathers a whole new perspective on the creation of the Tyger. In this stanza, Blake suggests that the creation of the Tyger was not a mistake, and that nothing went wrong during, or after, the creation was complete. The Tyger was not created as a good creation and then turned bad after its heart began to beat, it was born as something bad, and the …show more content…
In the final line, Blake changes the question from “Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (4), to “Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?” (24). Here the reader learns that the speaker is completely perplexed about the creation of the Tyger. They also discover that Blake is no longer questioning if anything could frame the fearful symmetry of a tiger, or the symmetry of good and evil in the world, but why would someone dare to take on the challenge to contain its symmetry. Blake concludes that this creation was all part of God’s master plan for the world, and that he dared to do it because he could do