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Quotation from The Tyger by William Blake
“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
The Tyger, Stanza 1 (Lines 1-4) (Songs of Experience, 1794)
The opening stanza sets the image of fire in darkness and asks the poem's governing question about the maker.
Citation: "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" — William Blake, The Tyger, Stanza 1 (Lines 1-4) (Songs of Experience, 1794). (id the-tyger-q1)
Portrait: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Tyger, William Blake, CC0.
