Poetry Analysis

Poetry Analysis

Introduction

“Little Lamb who made thee…Dost thou who made thee”. This is the question that opens up the poem “The Lamb,” written by William Blake. This question is being asked by a child who wants to know who created the little lab, which offered it life and invited it to eat. The answer to the question is described throughout the poem by describing the Lamb running through fields, frolicking beside the stream, and via its natural surroundings. In the essay, I will focus on the themes addressed in the poem, including nature, God and creation, childhood, and innocence.

The poem offers a perfect arcadian scene, painting a clear image of the lamb frisking in its countryside surroundings. It is obvious to note the absence of the urban world. Implicitly, also, it looks at highlighting the beauty of nature and to show nature as a robust source of happiness and freedom.

The Lamb is part of nature itself; however, it’s also a sign of the freedom and joy related to the natural world more typically, which this poem tries to show that it cannot be found in the current urban surroundings. The beginning stanza presents this deep relationship between happiness and nature. The Lamb resides among meadows and streams. These are the regions where nature is permitted to develop, and they, in turn, offer the Lamb an amazing and free surrounding to reside. This explains why the coat of the Lamb is not just clothing but “clothing of delight.” Nature lets the Lamb be entirely itself, with no boundaries. That thought is also behind the connection of the Lamb’s coat with brightness. This means it is a positive surrounding with no misery of the urban environment.

In turn, the Lamb shares a positive influence on its natural surroundings. The Lamb’s tender voice makes the valleys happy-“Gave thee such a tender voice..”. Nature and the Lamb are in mutualism, which involves a nurturing and balanced connection that is of advantage to both. This is what makes the speaker happy due to the balance. The speaker feels close to the Lamb and its surroundings, showing that it is a mechanical connection between nature and human beings as well. This indicates that it is the natural world that offers joy to the people and makes them free and not the dangerous and restrictive urban area. The reader is requested to value the connection between the nature and humanity. It asks them to nourish and nature the connection similar to the manner the undestroyed environment lets the Lamb live joyfully.

Another theme presented in the pome is childhood and innocence. The author prominently thought that human beings are born with all things they require to live lives of closeness with God, freedom, and happiness. By using the speaker of the poem as a child, the author argues that individuals require holding onto the values represented in childhood but not forgetting and resisting them via worries and fear of adulthood. Appreciating the Lamb in the poem through joy, God, and nature is connected to the childhood perspective of the child. Childhood, therefore, is not a state of ignorance; rather, it is among the innate understanding.

The child is worshiping the Lamb in the first stanza. He feels pulled to the tiny creature, maybe sensing in the Lamb a type of sign of himself, including happiness, vulnerability, and innocence. This indicates that instinctively, the speaker as a child is aware that the Lamb is an indication of the design of God, and the child is also a part of the design. The child symbolizes Jesus, showing that he, the savior of humans, was also born into the world with every curiosity, vulnerable and innocence of children. Jesus himself was God which indicates that childhood is something sacred. To reflect the connection between God, the child, and the Lamb, the child declares that “we are all called by his name” this is an indication they are all connected since they are all part of God. Therefore, childhood isn’t reflected as something to develop out of in the way that individuals usually believe in it now. Rather, it is an enlightened manner of viewing the universe that the poem begs the reader to keep, and by doing it, the reader will see the happiness and beauty around him according to the poem.

The author also presents the theme of God and creation. This poem marvels at the warders of the creation. The speaker is addressing a lamb and warders ho it existed prior to its affirmation that every existence is from God.  Through the gentle and humble figure of the Lamb, the child can see the amazing proof of God’s work, and the Lamb is also an expression of God’s existence besides being created by God. The Lamb is an example that the whole world is also an expression of God’s existence. The speaker also asks rhetorically who created the Lamb since what is presented in the poem later indicates that God is the sole creator. In the first stanza, the Lamb is depicted in its natural residence, which is a beautiful pastoral scene where that Lamb is free to run around. The Lamb and the child are “called by his name,” which shows that God made all things, and nothing can separate them from God, who is the creator. The Lamb’s figure is where the poem sees the sign of every work of God.

Conclusion

The essay discusses the themes addressed in the poem, including nature, God and creation, childhood, and innocence. These are the basis for the arguments made in the essay, as well as the points presented. The Lamb is part of nature, representing the joy and freedom of nature. The nature is also seen to be essential when it is unspoiled like in the current urban areas. The poem finally asks the reader to nourish the nature. There is also the theme of childhood and innocence and the speaker in the poem is a child. The poem lets us now that childhood is not a state of ignorance but among the innate understanding. Finally, the essay discussed the theme of God and creation. The theme of creation is seen from stanza one, where the speaker asks who made the Lamb. The Lamb is a symbol of God and His creation. Therefore, everything in the poem revolves around the theme of creation and God, nature, and childhood and innocence, which are presented by the child and his description of the Lamb.