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In literature, due to biblical influence, it is common for God to be portrayed as a powerful but gentle being who created all the good things in the universe. William Blake, influenced by the cruel and putrid living conditions of his childhood in the throes of Industrial Revolution, dares to look at God not only as the good God, but also as the God who is the creator of great evil. Blake, in his poem The Tyger, reveals to the reader by using metaphorical language and descriptive imagery the divine savagery that God is capable of. This divine savagery is presented to the reader metaphorically by comparing God, the powerful creator, to a blacksmith, while the fiery Tyger, around which the poem is centered, is the darkness of the human soul. The poem begins with the speaker questioning the origins. He asks the Tyger "What immortal hand or eye. / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" hoping to comprehend what terrible power created it. The speaker questions, as if awestruck, on the origins of t