Fearful Symmetry

Fearful Symmetry is a phrase from William Blake's poem "The Tyger" (Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?). It has been used as the name of a number of other works:

Film and television

• Tales That Witness Madness refers to poem in the first of the horror anthology stories called Mr Tiger. The child specifically asks his invisible Tiger what "fearful Semetry" means as well as stated that the poem is his favourite.
• Batman: The Animated Series makes reference to the poem in the 42nd episode: Tyger, Tyger
• "Fearful Symmetry" (The X-Files), an episode of The X-Files
• "Fearful Symmetry", an episode of the animated television series Justice League Unlimited
• Fearful Symmetry, a 1998 documentary on the making of To Kill a Mockingbird
• "Fearful Symmetry", an episode of the television series Lewis
• "Fearful Symmetry", a 2011 episode of the television series Endgame
• "Fearful Symmetry," a 2020 episode of the tabletop role-playing series Dimension 20, in its Fantasy High: Sophomore Year season
• "Fearful Symmetry" is the password to enter Tiger Bar in "The Russians? Exactly, the Soviets.", an episode of Neo Yokio

Music

• Fearful Symmetry (album), a 1986 album by Daniel Amos
• Fearful Symmetry, a band headed by Jimmy P. Brown II of Deliverance
• "Fearful Symmetries", a composition by John Adams
• "Fearful Symmetry", a 1990 album by Box of Chocolates, a group that included Will Oldham

Print

• Fearful Symmetry, a book by mathematician Ian Stewart
• Fearful Symmetry (Frye), a work of Blake scholarship by Northrop Frye
• Fearful Symmetry, a popular science book by physicist Anthony Zee
• Fearful Symmetry, a 2008 novel in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch series
• Fearful Symmetry, the fifth issue of the comic book Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Fearful Symmetry, an alternate title for the Spider-Man graphic novel Kraven's Last Hunt
• Fearful Symmetry, a short story by Sherman Alexie, included in his book War Dances
• Fearful Symmetries, a novel by S. Andrew Swann
• Her Fearful Symmetry, a novel by Audrey Niffenegger
• Fearful Symmetry, an issue of the comic book Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. 1957

Other

• "Fearful Symmetry", a difficult ice climb in the Canadian Rockies
• FearfulSymmetry.net, the website of novelist Dan Wells
• "Thy Fearful Symmetry", a universal helmet ornament in Destiny 2

See also

• Her Fearful Symmetry, a novel by Audrey Niffenegger