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"The Tyger"
In "The Tyger," William Blake explains that there is more than meets the eye when one examines the creator and his creation, the tiger. The persona is never defined. All throughout the poem the persona questions the creator of the tiger to determine if the creator is demonic or godlike. The poem reflects primarily the persona's response to the tiger, rather than the tiger's response to the world. The persona is curious about the location of the creator of the tiger when he says, "In what distant deeps or skies" (5). In this quote the persona is trying to figure out where exactly the creator is located he wants to know if he's in Hell or in Heaven. The words "deeps" or "skies" could have many meanings. According to Inder Nath Kher "The images of "deeps" and "skies" indicate usual theological expressions for Hell and Heaven. This leads to the ambiguity of "the double ness of the tiger", and it suggests that either God or the Devil, or both, could have been responsible for its creation. The persona is also wondering what does the creator look like when he says, "And what shoulder, and what art, could twist the sinews of thy heart?..