The engraving that William Blake inscribed his poem “The Lamb” on shows a herd of sheep near what looks like a barn and a river. There’s a child with them, and his hand is stretched out towards one of the lambs.  I think his engraving very literally interprets the poem that Blake wrote. In the poem, the child is speaking. Without the engraving, it’s hard to tell who the child is actually speaking to – it could be a lamb, but it could also be a metaphor for something or someone else. However in the picture we can clearly see that the child is actually speaking to a lamb. He has his hand stretched out, and the lamb is looking up at him intently as the child asks “who made thee?”, who “gave thee life and bid thee feed by the stream and o’er the mead?” The child then goes on to a more theological explanation, where he explains to the lamb who “made” him, saying “he is called by thy name, for he calls himself a lamb…I a child and thou a lamb. We are called by his name.” The “lamb” is a name that is often times used to describe Jesus in the Bible, the ‘lamb of God.’ Here, the child references many of what he considers to be Jesus’s creations – the meadow, the stream, the lamb itself. He’s explaining to the lamb who was behind all these wonderful creations. I think the engraving the author did really compliments the poem because it captures the innocence and meekness of the young child and the lamb, and represents the beauty of creation Blake talked about.