"A mirror of man in his fallen state" is how Hazard Adams describes the meaning of this work, in which the poet considers a furnace, a hammer, a chain, and an anvil as possible tools used in creating the title entity. An allusion to Genesis is included in the penultimate stanza, "When the stars threw down their spears, / And watered heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see?" Before 
"A mirror of man in his fallen state" is how Hazard Adams describes the meaning of this work, in which the poet considers a furnace, a hammer, a chain, and an anvil as possible tools used in creating the title entity. An allusion to Genesis is included in the penultimate stanza, "When the stars threw down their spears, / And watered heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see?" Before that, the author wondered, "what art / Could twist the sinews" of a heart and "What the hand dare seize the fire?" that burnt in an eye. FTP, name this lyric from Songs of Experience in which the "fearful symmetry" of the titular animal is marveled at by William Blake.
"A mirror of man in his fallen state" is how Hazard Adams describes the meaning of this work, in which the poet considers a furnace, a hammer, a chain, and an anvil as possible tools used in creating the title entity.
"The Tyger"