There are often two sides to everything: chocolate and vanilla, water and fire, woman and man, innocence and experience. The presence of two opposing elements allows harmony and balance in the world. Without water the fire cannot be extinguished and without woman man cannot exist. William Blake's poetry collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience draws parallels between poems of "innocence" and poems of "experience". His poem The Lamb is mirrored by his poem The Tiger. Although Blake's poem The Tiger revolved around the idea of ​​a ferocious mammal, his illustration of an embarrassed tiger complicates and alters Blake's message in the poem by suggesting that good and evil exist simultaneously. Upon first reading the poem, without any influence from Creature of an extended metaphor between the creator and a blacksmith, Blake asks the questions “What hammer? What is the chain, / In what furnace was your brain? / What the hell? What a terrible grip,/...” (13-16). Industry terminology affirms the belief that the tiger is a conscious product of the creator or God. The decision to draw a parallel between the blacksmith and God suggests that it was not an easy process, but rather laborious and dangerous, much like blacksmithing of the hot metal. It is a process that requires an abundance of energy, which suggests that evil, i.e. the tiger, was brought into the world intentionally. Blake's next question: "Did he who created the Lamb create you?" it is less of a question, but rather a statement of the narrator's realization that, yes, it is the same God who created the lamb and the tiger (20). The two opposing creatures were created to The idea of ​​intentional defects may be perplexing at first, but Blake is unconsciously imitating and following the mold that God created. Innocence and evil, good and evil exist in many aspects. From the imperfect symmetry of the poem's form to the incongruent harmony between the poem and the illustration, they all emphasize the idea that good and evil exist simultaneously. It is only in an imperfect world that one is able to gain knowledge, make mistakes and gain experience. We come full circle when we look back at the collection, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, from which the poem The Tyger is derived. Without good and evil, the author would not have had the ability to identify with the experience, and the poem The Tiger would not be the