The speaker in “The Tyger” questions what great power created the amazing animal that we know as the tiger and how it was done.
Read the stanza from the poem: What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil?
what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
What is the figurative meaning of these lines? How does this meaning contribute to the overall message of the poem? Your response should be one or two complete paragraphs.
