The Significance of Mythological Allusions to Vulcan and Hephaestus in William Blake's "The Tyger."

William Blake wrote The Tyger as a counterpart to The Lamb. In its simplest interpretation, it may seem that The Tyger represents the bad in mankind, and The Lamb represents the good. The speaker asks the tiger, "What immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry?" (4) The Tyger is majestic, but also dangerous and ferocious. However, Blake shows that the tiger is scary and evil sometimes, but maybe people just can't understand the reason …

…idea of prejudice is very prevalent in human society, we judge the tiger as well as anything else that appears ominous. Blake's concept of the tiger in this poem is very much like the idea of yin and yang. The good has a little bit of bad, and the bad has a little bit of bad, like the Lamb and the Tyger, where the Tyger is the bad with a glimmer of good in it.