Dare

In contradiction to "The Tyger"'s sister poem, "The Lamb," "The Tyger" consists mostly of questions that are never answered. He continually asks who, "Could frame thy fearful symmetry" throughout the poem ending stanzas with the same question. This is Blake's way of expressing the human transition from innocence to experience - when we are young, we think we have all of the answers from God, but when we are older, we realize we do not have any answers about life at all. Finally, Blake switches from "could," to "dare," a much more demanding question about the power of the animals creator. By using this word, he makes the reader think about the ultimate power around us in nature, and reminds us what little we know about life, which gives the entire poem an ominous and dark feel.