The Lamb by William Blake

Who is the speaker of this poem? (hint: 2nd stanza)

• William Blake

• A child of god

• God

• A lamb

Who is the audience of the poem? Who is the child addressing?

• A lamb

• A tiger

• Innocence

• A flower

What type of imagery is incorporated most in the first stanza?

• Pastoral: nature, land, meadows

• Urban: city, industrial

• Spiritual: godly, religious

• Humanistic: celebration of man and his accomplishments

What is the effect of the rhyming couplets in the poem?

• They are childlike and reflect the innocent tone

• They are long an complex to illustrate the pensive tone

• They form a sonnet

• So that children cannot read and understand the poem because it is for adults

What does stanza 2 focus on?

• The child

• The lamb and the tiger

• A religious-philosophical examination of the lamb

• The death of the lamb

A metaphor in the second stanza compares the lamb to...

• A child

• Jesus

• The tiger's opposite

• the sun

Which religion does Blake base this poem on?

• Judaism

• It doesn't focus on religion

• Multiple religions

• Christianity

Which words best describe the TONE of the poem?

• Angry and vengeful

• Naive and gullible

• Innocent and hopeful

• Pessimistic and downtrodden

Which ideas do the lamb, Jesus and the child most clearly have in common?

• Their meekness, mildness and innocence

• Their arrogance and greed

• Their confusion and desperation

• Their envy and jealousy

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CCSS.RL.8.10

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which other poem by William Blake goes hand in hand with this one as a "yin and yang" of opposing ideas?

• The cow

• The tyger

• The sheep

• The lion