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
The Tyger says to begin to wonder about the tiger, and its nature, can only lead to a daring to wonder about it. Blake achieves great power through the use of alliteration ("frame" and "fearful") combined with imagery (burning, fire, eyes), and he structures the poem to ring with incessant repetitive questioning, demanding of the creature, "Who made thee?" In the third stanza the focus moves from the tiger, the creation, to the creator – of whom Blake wonders "What dread hand? & what dread feet?". "The Tyger" is six stanzas in length, each stanza four lines long. Much of the poem