Fearful Symmetry
Appearance
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:
In film and television:
- "Fearful Symmetry" (The X-Files), an episode of the television series 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 ITV television series Lewis (2012)
- "Fearful Symmetry", a 2011 episode of the television series Endgame
In 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
In 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 (novel), a novel by S. Andrew Swann
- Her Fearful Symmetry, a novel by Audrey Niffenegger
- FearfulSymmetry.net, the website of novelist Dan Wells
In climbing:
- "Fearful Symmetry", a difficult ice climb in the Canadian Rockies