What Does The Lamb Mean

We Are All One
Humans, animals, and all objects existing on earth are all alike in the fact that they are all creations of god. In the poem “The Lamb” William Blake begins with a communicating with a lamb. The child focuses on the question, who is his creator? Suddenly it transitions to the child answering the question, which happens to be Jesus Christ. William Blake demonstrates we are all alike through the use of personification through the valleys, alliteration to emphasize the power of Jesus, and also a trochaic pattern throughout the poem to impact how a reader understands the importance of a line. We understand the importance of the lamb to the poem. We see that the lamb is not just a living animal, but also a symbol of Jesus Christ himself. Blake conducts this symbolism to the lamb to show that we are all Jesus’s creatures, and in that sense we are all the same. Blake first demonstrates this comparison by the use of personification. In the statement “…Making all the valls Rejoice!”(499) the speaker is personifying the valleys with a rejoice emotion. The statement is creating a union between the land and the lamb by demonstrating that a valley is much more than just a mountain, for it is a creation of god. Thus making it comparable to the lamb, and due to the comparison to the land and the lamb we know it also is …show more content…
In the statement “I a child & thou a lamb, we are called by his name.”(499) we see that the lord’s name isn’t directly mentioned. It is insinuated that we know another way to pronounce Jesus is “the lamb of god.” He uses the comparison of the lamb and the lord and describes them being meek and mild. And the writer is making this comparison with a trochaic rhythm to really emphasize the lamb is Jesus himself. He wants to emphasize the comparison because of the blessings at the