The speaker of "The Tyger" compares the Tyger's creator to a...?

Question

Choices:
a. blacksmith
b.hammer
c. light
d. hand

I chose hand but it was incorrect so tell me what ya'll think.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or sloes
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

Answer 1

Well, "hand" is not a bad guess. That word appears in stanzas 1, 2, 3, and 5. And in stanza 4, you see "grasp" and "clasp," which are both words that relate to the hand. But the hammer, furnace, and anvil in stanza 4 do suggest a blacksmith, who heats iron in a furnace, then shapes it on an anvil by striking the hot metal with a hammer. (But what's up with the chain?) Blake is not always easy to decipher. For example, I don't know what to make of stanza 5. The stars hold spears and shed tears? His poetry is powerful and magical, but it doesn't always make sense to me.

Answer 2

Definitely blacksmith, see stanza 4: hammer, furnace, anvil.

Answer 3

a. blacksmith
...
WHAT THE HAMMER? WHAT THE CHAIN?
IN WHAT FURNACE WAS THY BRAIN?
WHAT THE ANVIL? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?