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:

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 film loosely based on Watchmen
• Fearful Symmetry, a 1998 documentary on the making of To Kill a Mockingbird
• Continually referenced in 2010 TV show Outcasts
• "Fearful Symmetry", an episode of the ITV television series Lewis (2012)

In music:

• Fearful Symmetry (album), a 1986 album by Daniel Amos
• Fearful Symmetry (band), 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