` The Tyger` by William Blake

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On William Blake 's The Tyger

William Blake 's The Tyger ' is best understood within the context of the title of the collection from which the work was derived , that being Songs of Experience . The collection stands to be read in connection to a former collection of works entitled

Songs of Innocence . The juxtaposition of the works within both collections presents Blake 's views regarding the relationship between experience in connection to how it shapes one 's perception of life and human existence . Doubleday (2007 states that these works present Blake 's belief that intuitive perception in innocence and the reflection of life which comes by way of experience are both valid but not identical and difficult to reconcile (315 . Given such a view , one might thereby state that Blake perceives the perception of human life as being affected by both a mythical and a realist conception of reality . The reason for this is evident through an analysis of William Blake 's The Tyger

Composed of six stanzas , The Tyger ' questions the rationale of the entity who made an animal such as the tyger . In the process of doing this , the speaker of the poem describes the power inherent in the tyger 's form . The first stanza describes the...