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William Blake’s The Tyger is one of the most celebrated poems in English literature. It was published in 1794 in Songs of Experience, a collection that examines the darker, more troubled dimensions of human life and social existence. The poem is often read alongside The Lamb, which appeared in Blake’s earlier collection Songs of Innocence. While The Lamb presents creation as gentle, loving and harmonious, The Tyger confronts the reader with a creature that is beautiful, powerful, violent and ter...