In "The Tyger," what does the image of the tiger burning in the first line suggest?

Besides
the color of the tiger, the use of
burning to describe the animal may have another .

When the
speaker asks What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry,

the speaker indicates that the sight of the tiger, created by an immortal being,
inspires
terror.

Throughout the poem,
fire-relatedaccompanies the description of the
tiger. The speaker wonders
where the tigers soul comes from in the following lines:

In what distant deeps or skies

Burnt the
fire of
thine eyes?

These lines could
be interpreted as
suggesting that the speaker thinks the tiger might have
come from hell. While the
"skies" refer to heaven, and the word "deeps" is
usually interpreted as
referring to the formless "deep" mentioned in the Book
of Genesisone of the primeval
elements from which God created
the...