E.D. Hirsch answers this unanswerable question: "To the idea that only lamblike virtues are holy, the poem opposes a God who is just as violent and fiery as the tiger himself. He is not a God whose attributes are the human form divine, but a God who is fiercely indifferent to man. Thus, to the singlemindedness of "The Lamb," "The Tyger" opposes a double perspective that acknowledges both the human values of Mercy, Pity, and Love, and, at the same time, the transhuman values of cruelty, energy, and destructiveness" (245).