In the poem "The Tyger" written by William Blake in 1794, what does this text suggest to you about the ways in which individuals take responsibility...

The
"fearful symmetry" could apply to the
ferocious physicality (and geometrical
proportions) of the tiger. However, in
this first (and last) stanza, the speaker wonders how an
"immortal hand" (God
or gods) could create something so innocent and gentle (the lamb)
while also
creating something as fierce as a tiger. The lamb, here and more specifically
in
Blake's poem "The Lamb," represents the generous and peaceful nature of
Christ. So,
that "symmetry" is also understood as a balancing of opposites:
lamb/peace and
tiger/violence. But the speaker does not understand how or why
a divine creator would create
this symmetry of opposites. Why create
something so loving but then something so
ferocious? 

Given this opposition in symmetry, the question about individual

responsibility would take the form of a similar question that the speaker originally
asks. In a
world where each person has the potential to be peaceful or
harmful, why would one ever choose
the latter? Or, to address the divine more
directly, "if God is benevolent, why is there
suffering in the
world?" 

Since your question is more about individual

responsibility, this perspective puts the onus on the individual rather than God
(the
"immortal hand"). In this interpretation, the suggestion seems to be
that individuals
can make tigers or lambs. In other words, each individual
can create peaceful situations and
loving gestures. Or he/she can wreak havoc
(the tiger). This is one of the binary oppositions
people experience in the
world. Each has the choice to create peace or create violence. If one
creates
or initiates harm, the speaker in this poem would then ask the one who has created
that
strife, "Did he smile his work to see?" 

This is more
of an
existential take on this poem. Other, more canonical interpretations
tend to focus on Biblical
allusions and that the oppositions of Lamb and
Tiger are the result of The Fall. But this
existential notion is interesting
because it frames the poem in terms of personal responsibility
to one's self
and to others.