I am quite mystified by the connection between Blake's tyger and the Christ. It will be helpful if you could you throw more light on the symbolism in the poem. I reproduce the text below and some of my questions on it. Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Does the unusual spelling Tyger perhaps hint that this is no ordinary tiger? Why burning and not shining? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? Is the poet referring to a primordial Fire here? Who is "he" here, the third person other than the Tyger and the poet? What wings and, seize which fire? The fire of the tyger's eye? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What creator has wrought the Tyger? Isn't that the question the poet wonders about here? The "dread hand" and "dread feet" should also be the creator's then, like the shoulder and the art? Reminds me of the Savitri lines: Pain is the hand of Nature sculpturing men To greatness: an inspired labour chisels. With heavenly cruelty an unwilling mould... What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! Surely, the creator is the blacksmith here, forging his creations... When the stars threw down their spears And water’d heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? This I don't get at all... Aren't the eternal stars moved to tears by the tyger's beauty? Their spears are the twlinkling lights that make them beautiful... But the occult interpretation is that the stars here are demons, the "nishaachars". Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Why "dare"?