The Tyger

In William Blake’s The Tyger, The paradox of when Blake ask if the god made both does imply the binary of good and evil.

There are many implication of god throughout the poem such as the words immortal and with all the questions which only god would be only able to answer.
When the poet asks “Did he who made the Lamb make thee”, I assume that the Blake means that god, who made the lamb, also made the tyger, but questions why god would also make the tiger. The lamb usually is the symbol of good and moral, and even as Christ is some aspects, while the tiger is picture as a carnivorous animal is describe in the poem as evil. When Blake wrote about how the tyger was made, I believe the hammer, furnace, and chain are not machine related but rather are more symbolic images. I feel like those things symbolize hell because using the hammer and furnace usually requires fire and fire is usually analyzed as hell or some type of evil. So I think that the tiger is not made from machines but rather from hell and is the form of evil, while the lamb is the symbol of good because the lamb could possibly be Christ and lambs are usually associated with good.

In the fifth stanza, Blake wrote “Did he smile his work to see?” I believe Blake ask god why he would create such evil. I believe Blake poem is about the unity of good and evil. How there cannot be good without evil and that one cannot exist without the other.
I believe the picture of the tiger is not supposed to be interpreted as a robotic/idiotic tiger. I think that the tiger eyes are glaring at something and give off a chilling and eerie feeling as something evil would do.