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Robert Frost's Design and William Blake's The Tyger both use animals and nature to argue evolution and against creationism. Both poems ask the question "why?" repetitively in order to get the reader to question his creationist beliefs. Frost tries to get the reader to come to the conclusion that while everything is so intricate there is no specific reason for the existence of any one thing and therefore there is no creator behind everything. Blake tries to reach the same conclusion but by claiming that it is not logical or possible for the same creator to create things so natural, robotic, peaceful and fierce, and that these could only be created by randomness.

When Frost reaches the volta with "What had that flower to do with being white" he is making us question why would a creator make a flower white. This tells us that there is no reason for this logical or otherwise and leads us to believe that there was no intended reason for the creation of anything. This then develops into if there was no reason for the creation of anything then it probably all just came to be without the aid of a creator. Without using questioning Frost also ties doubt to creationism in the start of his poem. Frost obviously chose the spider's capture of the moth for a reason. If his goal was to make all of us in awe of god's creation the scene would be much more tranquil and desirable than the end of the life of one creature at the hands of another. There is no stated or implied reason for the spider to be fat or dimpled. He tells us not of the spider reaching true happiness or teaching us a lesson because of these traits, they simply are. This leads us to believe that the spider needs to each the moth to survive so it does so, not because it is the will of a creator.

Blake tries to make us come to the same conclusion as Frost does but does so in every stanza. Blake really starts to wane from creationism in the fourth stanza with lines such as "What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain?". These lines make us compare the natural beauty of a tiger to the cold mechanistic world with forges, chains, and furnaces. Even though Blake is still talking about the tiger, it poses the question why would a creator create a natural animal with such fierceness and intricacy and have it exist in a world with the industrial things used to describe the tiger. If Blake wanted to agree with creationism he would include an answer to all the whys instead of leaving them unanswered giving us the impression that there is no answer, no reason, and no creator. Blake's line "Did He who make the lamb make thee?" poses us the question of why would two animals so incredibly different by created by the same hands. The lamb is a symbol of innocence and purity and the tiger is a symbol of aggression, fear and power and therefore there is no common link between to two.