This was the first poem I started reading and the fact that they were talking about a lamb in the poem felt really weird to me. I did a little bit of research and found out the lamb is associated with Jesus. I already have some knowledge about how other religions have something to do with lambs or other animals in general, so it made me want to read this poem more. The second stanza seems more meaningful to me. In the second stanza of the poem, there is an identification of the lamb, Christ, and the child. Christ has another name, that is, Lamb, because Christ is meek and mild like lamb as identified in the poem. Christ was also a child when he first appeared on this earth as the Son of God. The poem conveys the spirit of childhood – the purity, the innocence, and the tenderness of childhood. A religious note is introduced in the poem because of the image of Christ as a child. The Lamb is a pastoral poem. The child says that the person, who has created the Lamb and has given many gifts described in the first stanza, is himself by the name of the Lamb. It is Jesus Christ who calls himself a Lamb.
Zain, You have done a good job here identifying some of the essential moves Blake makes in this poem. Now we have to try to connect the dots and figure out what it means to compare the child, the lamb, and Jesus. What do they all have in common?