William Blake "The Tyger"

The poem “The Tyger” by William Blake is not like the other poems I have read so far this year. This poem seems like the ones you read to little children in the 1st grade. The whole poem rhymes and it sort of has a joyful feeling to it. Even though this poem seems like a children’s poem, it has so many paradoxes and controversies. He describes the “Tyger” like as if it was a robot, he uses words like “hammer”, “chain”, and “anvil” These all describe machines and the industrial life. I think he used “Tyger” as a symbol instead of the actual tiger, because when we think of tigers we think of the fast, powerful, free animal, but this poem makes the tiger seem like a machine we use.
The poem seems to be from children’s description and William Blake, I can imagine a kid thinking “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” but that’s really about it, the rest of the poem comes from William Blake’s thoughts. Let me go back to this line from the poem again “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” this line made me think of the clone the scientist made of the sheep named “Dolly” the scientist used technology to clone the sheep, when I read this poem all I can think about is the technology we have and what we can do with it. We are almost like god, with our new technology we are being able to create things that no one thought can be created only by god himself. This poem really speaks to me and how we are changing and how technology is advancing. Now instead of telling children that god created them or a higher being did, in the near future we might tell the children that we created the creature.

P.S. I have included a link about Dolly the sheep in case you want to read more about her and how she was cloned

Link: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/dolly/