Lamb By Cleary The Lamb

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This poem, after the first time it is read, seem hard, even difficult to view through a Marxist lens and obtain some sort of clear message, but upon further reading and research a message can be obtained. The message is that it’s a proposal for a utopian world. This world would be/is controlled by The Lamb. This world would be beautiful, and happy. The support the author gives for this idea is the lamb himself. If the lamb was instead replace with a person, this argument would be clearer. Who made you? Who made you only eat at the finest places? Who made you beautiful, smart and have the voice of an angle? Cleary The Lamb did, be bestowed all of these nice things onto this person therefore he is great. That is just in the first stanza. In the

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