William Blake's poem "The Lamb" metaphorically refers to Christ as the Lamb who came as a child, and that we are made in His image; this speaking of the religious importance and influences at the time this poem was written. It seams Blake's style of poetry proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th?century. William Blake is at first calling the lamb out as though it were an …
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…lamb and the child and about the apparent paradox, that God became both child and Lamb in coming, as Jesus, into the world. A lot of Blake's themes involve nature and human nature, animals and plants as simple but profound symbols of powerful forces. Blake's non-standard spelling, puns and wordplay, as well as his simple rhythmic us of nouns and verbs reflect his personal and touching writing style such as in his poem The Lamb.