William Blake was an English artist and a mystical poet. He was born in London as the son of hosier. James Blake recognized his sons artistic talents even at his early age but it was beyond his potential to finance his sons formal education. Hence in 1777 William Blake was sent to James Basire, an engraver. Here, the young apprentice spent his leisure time in writing poems and gradually turned into budding poet. In 1783 he published poetical sketches which was lyrical in quality. He published Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) written in two distinct and dominant moods of joy and sorrow respectively. His mystical bent of mind found fuller expression in his works the book of Thel (1787), the Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), the Gales of Paradise and the Vision of the Daughter of Albion (1793).
William Blake is a mystic, who sees the ultimate Reality behind the ordinary reality. The tiger is a poem from Blake’s Songs of experience in which he projects the more cruel and fearful aspects of life. At the simplest reading, this poem appears to describe the symmetry and strength of this poem appears to describe the symmetry and strength of this awe-inspiring animal. Besides recognizing the beauty of this stupendous creation, it recognizes painfully the strength and destructive nature of the tiger. However, a deep reading of the poem reveals that the tiger is truly the symbol of all that is cruel and awful in the world. Ironically the same Creator who made the lamb, the most peaceful and gentlest of creatures, made the tiger in all its fearful beauty and strength as though to emphasize that the world comprises fierceness and strength with gentleness and peace. Thanks and Regards.
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