Thanks Akash for the research on Tyger. I’m reproducing in the following Blake’s illustration taken from the Wikipedia link supplied by you.

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The problem of Good and Evil, of the Lamb and the Tyger in the present case, is a typical western problem which does not bother the Indian understanding. Let me quote here a dialogue between Arnold Toynbee and his son Philip Toynbee:

Philip Toynbee: If you try to believe in a God who is both good and omnipotent, the problem of absolutely superfluous suffering, gratuitous suffering, is a real one, isn’t it? Arnold Toynbee: Oh, it is. I have thought quite a lot about it and I admire Indian religion and philosophy for grasping that nettle. I think Christianity has always tried to evade the problem. It has made the Devil responsible—saving God’s omnipotence by saying He created the Devil, and yet that He isn’t responsible for the thing He created. Now the Indians say that God is evil as well as good because He is omnipotent and He includes everything. In the Bhagavadgita there’s that terrifying vision of Krishna as a sort of trampling monster, grinding everything to bits with his gnashing teeth. On this point of omnipotence and goodness, the comprehensiveness, the catholicity, of Indian religion have made a great impression on me, and I feel very much in sympathy with it. I feel that this is the kind of religion that is needed for our times.

The informality of a discussion avoids all ponderous considerations of scholarship and forthwith puts us in touch with the truth perceived and realised by the speaker. A great realization for the Westerner, indeed! When you look carefully at Blake's illustration of the Tyger we don’t see any trace of “evil” in this creature of his; if it all, there is a kind of self-confidence in its movement ready to pounce upon the hostile, the enemies of God. Its raudra is surely spiritual; this Tyger definitely looks occultly powerful and fiery, and with a kind of luminous tranquillity on its face, and in its body too. I must say Amal has made a very fundamental contribution in presenting this true Tyger to us. Let’s hope that it will be recognized by the western critic also. ~ RYD