The poet speaks from a distant, analyzing the tiger’s powerful features, its enflamed eyes, the furnace burnt brain.
The question “What immortal hand or eye/ Could Frame they fearful symmetry?” is not rhetorical but posed in awe.
The poet does not approach the beast of The Tiger as if it is something to be nurtured. In fact, the beauty of the lamb is “He is called by thy name,” and the lamb’s qualities are described as the direct expressions of God – tender, bright, valuable. The speaker knows the answer and concludes with the truth, that the lambs origin is God. In The Lamb, it is a refrain, “Little lamb, who made thee? Does thou know who made thee?” In its repetition a song emerges, like a nursery rhyme asking a rhetorical question of the lamb that it can mull over as it goes to sleep. In both poems a question is posed to the animal that the poet encounters. Compare the mode of creation described in “The Lamb” with that of “The Tyger.” How are they similar? How are they different?
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