He begins with an intense question to the tiger; “What immortal hand or eye could frame your fearful symmetry? (731.2)His purpose in doing this is to introduce his theme for the poem, each subsequent stanza serves to elaborate this conception of the idea that nature, similar to a work of art, will reflect its creator, in this case; God. The formation of this existential question is closely linked to Blake's personal spiritual journey throughout the five years between the publication dates of the two manuscripts. Blake chooses the subject of the poem to be a tiger, he does so because a tiger has a remarkable nature that encompasses the beautiful yet terrifying capacity for innate destructiveness, which serves as the perfect platform for Blake to compare the "fearsome symmetry" (731.4) of a tiger as a symbol of Blake's investigation into the presence of evil in a world supposedly created by an all-perfect spiritual being.