“The Lamb” by William Blake is from “From Songs of Innocence”. It is a poem that consists of two stanzas, five couplets each, that follow an AABB rhyme scheme. This is a symbolic poem that relates the lambs to God the Creator. Lambs are known to be gentle and meek creatures. The connection and comparison of lambs and humans and God shows how they should act and strive to become. Humans should be meek and mild like lambs because it is God who “is called by thy name/ for he calls himself a lamb.” (Blake 13-14).

The image I chose for this poem shows the face a lamb and a woman fused together. The tone of the poem is childlike. The questions he asks only to soon be answered through rhymes show this. And while it is a child who speaks this poem, it does not have to be one who is represented in this poem. Anyone of any age is a child of God, infant, toddler, teenager, adult, and elderly. Everyone is and will be a child of god.
While reading the poem, I subconsciously thought of the child as a boy because of the Blake’s use of masculine pronouns, like he, in referencing God. However, it is not only the males that can take part in following the Lamb of God and becoming one also. Males, females, and everyone in between are allowed to join the house of God and convert to Christianity. This image allows the reader and viewer to put a “face” to the poem.