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Quotation from The Tyger by William Blake
“What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”
The Tyger, Stanza 4 (Lines 13-16) (Songs of Experience, 1794)
The Creator becomes a blacksmith, and the questions break into fragments under the force of the image.
Citation: "What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" — William Blake, The Tyger, Stanza 4 (Lines 13-16) (Songs of Experience, 1794). (id the-tyger-q3)
Portrait: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Tyger, William Blake, CC0.
