In his poem, "The Tyger," William Blake conveys the idea that too much good can lead to bad. Blake uses many literary devices to help his audience understand this theme. One of the best literary devices is diction. The use of diction, or choice of words in writing or speech, can give off tone and mood in a piece of work (dictonary.com). Throughout the poem, Blake has the narrator describe the animal in awe, mostly in the form of question. In the first and sixth stanza, the narrator gives the description of the animal having "fearful symmetry," (Blake 4). These two words are a great choice of diction because symmetry is often seen as perfection, the most positive someone or thing can have in the terms of attraction; however adding fearful on
