Her Fearful Symmetry Her Fearful Symmetry Her Fearful Symmetry is a literary ghost story novel by American writer Audrey Niffenegger. The book was published on 1 October 2009 and is set in London's Highgate Cemetery where, during research for the book, Niffenegger acted as a tour guide. The novel's title is inspired by "The Tyger", a poem by the English poet William Blake, which begins ""Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"". Considering the setting of the novel, some critics have also pointed out a potential verbal
William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job identified with Job, as he spent his lifetime unrecognized and impoverished. Harold Bloom has interpreted Blake's most famous lyric, "The Tyger", as a revision of God's rhetorical questions in the Book of Job concerning Behemoth and Leviathan. Blake also depicted the story of Job throughout his career as an artist. The song of Enion in Night the Second of "The Four Zoas" also demonstrates that Blake identified with Job. Blake used symbols extensively in the illustrations; most notable is the use of right and left limbs in the figures. The right limb represents the spiritual and the good; the left,