Who made the tiger?
Such a fearful creature, this wandering image of fire, this slaughterer of lambs. Innocence does not pervade the tiger; though it does the lamb. And so Blake suggests that the tiger be the work of the devil, by the rough, violent way, as it were, of a blacksmith; and that the lamb, on the contrary, be the work of a pure God who, like the lamb, is "meek and mild" and innocent.
Yet Blake describes the tiger as a beautiful, majestic animal all the same. This is his song of experience.
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