The Complete Guide to The Tyger
Six stanzas, fourteen questions, no answers — the whole poem, told properly.
Introduction
- Twenty-four lines that never stop burning
The world behind the poem
- The engraver who saw angels
- Two contrary states: how the Songs work
- 1794 — fire in France, furnaces in Lambeth
Through the poem
- Through the poem I — summons and transgression (stanzas 1–2)
- Through the poem II — the forge (stanzas 3–4)
- Through the poem III — the smile and the turn (stanzas 5–6)
The speaker & the maker
- The speaker — a mind displaced into questions
The writer's craft
- The craft room — metre, rhyme, litany, frame
Interpretations
- The debates — five readings that can all hold the floor
The examination
- The comparison workshop — partnering The Tyger in Section B
- In the exam room — the final drill