The+Lamb

- published in his book of poems, //Songs of Innocence//, in 1789 - curious child narrator rhetorically addressing a lamb - innocently addresses the deep question of creation
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**__ The Lamb __** - represents innocence, purity, and strong spirituality/piousness (two characters -- lamb and child -- embody innocence) - within lines 15-17 Blake illuminates his belief in the unity of all things, saying” He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb;” - (lines 14-16) a New Testament/Jesus reference is made in “For he calls himself a Lamb” - Style: repetitious, joyful, innocent à created by phrases such as “softest clothing wooly bright,” “tender voice,” “vales rejoicing,” etc. - Tone: prayer-like, prophetic, rhetorical (asks a question in first stanza and answers itself in the second)