. The Tyger  is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the Songs of Experience collection. Literary critic Alfred Kazin calls it the most famous of his poems, and The Cambridge Companion to William Blake says it is the most anthologized poem in English..n the fifth stanza, Blake wonders how the creator reacted to the Tyger, and who created the creature. Finally, the sixth restates the central question while raising the stakes; rather than merely question what/who could create the Tyger, the speaker wonders: who dares.