William Blake's "The Tyger"

Blake’s poem “The Tyger” offers up many contradictions and paradoxes with Blakes view on industrialization . The tiger is a figure that he is enamored with throughout the poem,. describing it as " burning bright".He seems even more interested with god’s creation of his tiger rather than the lamb, in a sense questioning his existence. He poses the question “Did he who made the lamb make thee? The lamb a symbol of innocence and purity is something considered “good”. Yet on the other hand the tiger is something created by a “hammer” and “chain”, a product of industrialization. Yet Blake worships this product of industrialization rather than the pure lamb, conveying people's preoccupation with technological advancement over nature. The poem also contains with it a figure of a limp robotic tiger, almost to show the consequences of industrialization, and how people like the tiger are loosing themselves to it.
The poem is in trochaic tetrameter, creating a rhythm similar to a child’s nursery rhyme. Rhyming couplets also make it as if almost the poem like many other nursery rhymes is created so children can easily repeat it. He also includes the same repetitive questions throughout the poem, much like the insistence of kids in asking adults the same questions. The ending paragraph also serves as a repetition of the first paragraph, furthering the poem’s simplistic structure. Yet within it the poem also asks complex questions, seemingly coming from the mind of Blake himself. Overall, "The Tyger" seems to serve as a cautionary tale for children, coming from the mind of Blake to try warn future generations of the consequences to industrilization.