• Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David E. Erdman (Anchor Books, 1988). ... More About This Poem. The Lamb.
  • Blake therefore uses this image to connect the lamb of the poem to the Christian story and to the child, because Jesus became both a child and a lamb.
  • "The Lamb" is the counterpart poem to Blake's poem: "The Tyger" in Songs of Experience.
  • The Lamb’ by William Blake is a warm and curious poem that uses the lamb as a symbol for Christ, innocence, and the nature of God’s creation.
  • The poemThe Lamb” by William Blake presents the poet’s opinion about who created the lamb and blessed it with life and its answer that only God has done it.
  • In William Blake’s poemThe Lamb” a child-speaker asks a lamb if it knows its creator, who gave it life and gifts like its woolly clothing and tender voice.
  • So the poem is not just marveling at the lamb itself, but also at the way in which the lamb is God, just as the Bible describes Jesus himself to be God.
  • Poem The Lamb by William Blake : Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed, By the stream &.
  • William Blake’s The Tyger is perhaps his most popular poem. But many people are unaware of the counterpart of that poem; The Lamb.