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What does it mean?
Asking about the origins of the tiger's fire and spirit.
In plain terms
Where did its fire come from?
What can you take from it?
Creation is mysterious.

Where it applies

  • questioning origins
  • mythology

Putting it to work

  • artistic inspiration
  • philosophy

Questions to consider

  • What drives creation?
  • Is fire divine?

Another view

Origins may be mundane.

More from William Blake

  1. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright in the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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  2. When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

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  3. Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.

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