1st paragraph: The eyes of the tiger are gleaming at night in some forest. Tiger is creation of God because only god has the power to imagine such a terribly beautiful creature and shape it.

Tiger is Blake’s symbol of fierce forces of the soul. Its burning eyes suggest the anger and passion of its soul. The eyes burn in the forest of oppression and cruelty.

2nd paragraph: The creator must have wings. The poet asks from which distant volcanoes (deeps) or height have you taken the light or fire that burns in its eyes. And those hands must have great powers because they dared seize that fire.

It is reminiscent of Prometheus legend.

3rd paragraph: Sinews are the fibrous tissues which unite the muscles to the bones. How long and how much strength and work it must have taken in forming the sinews of its heart? And ultimately its heart began to beat. How dreadful your paws and legs are.

4th paragraph: The poet asks what hammer and what anvil and what chain were used in forming the symmetry of the tiger. Through which furnace did the brain go before it is formed? What is the tremendous grasp that can catch you in all your deadly terror?

5th paragraph: The line has a biblical touch. It’s probably inspired from Milton’s account of the fall of the angels. The stars were the angels who rebelled. But they threw their spears down and fled and cried after acknowledging that they had lost the war against God.

Here it means they threw down their spear in amazement and wept to see such a merciless being created.

The tiger is pleasing to god as it is a part of his purpose. God both created lamb and tiger – the good and evil – as they represent the two states of human soul.