The Tyger is a poem made almost entirely of questions. What immortal hand or eye? In what distant deeps or skies? Did he smile his work to see? Blake asks and asks, and never once answers.
The question at the centre
The real question arrives in the fifth stanza: Did he who made the Lamb make thee? The Tyger (1794) has a twin — The Lamb, from Blake's earlier Songs of Innocence. One asks how gentleness came into the world; the other asks how terror did. Blake's unsettling suggestion is that the same hand made both, and that any god capable of the lamb must also answer for the tiger.
He made the books by hand
Blake didn't just write the poems. He invented a method of "illuminated printing," etching text and image together onto copper, then printing and hand-colouring each page himself with his wife Catherine. Every surviving copy of Songs of Experience is slightly different — there was no mass edition. The poem you know from anthologies was, originally, a hand-painted object.
Wear it
Our Tyger tee carries "Tyger Tyger, burning bright" with the full poem on the back. Pair it with the lamb, if you dare — the way Blake intended.