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“The Tyger”
by William Blake, page 25

Vocabulary
symmetry – equality
sinews – muscles

1. How do the first two lines (called a couplet) contrast?

2. The fourth stanza compares the creator of the tyger to what/whom?

3. Unlike in his “The Lamb,” Blake’s “The Tyger” offers no answers for the speaker’s
questions. What does the lack of responses suggest is the poem’s message about creation?

4. How does the speaker present the tyger, as compared to the lamb in Blake’s other poem?

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