Symbols

The Tiger: In the poem, the tiger is not just an animal—it is a symbol. It shows the strong, powerful, and scary side of God. In Blake’s poem “The Lamb,” the little lamb shows God as kind and gentle. But the tiger shows that God can also be fierce and dangerous. The poem asks: How can the same God make both? The tiger also shows that humans cannot fully understand God. The world has both good and bad things. The tiger stands for the scary or painful parts of the world that are hard to explain.