The Lamb by William Blake

The speaker directly addresses a lamb, asking it if it knows who created it, who gave it life and invited it to eat.

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In the second stanza, the lamb is then described in its natural environment, frolicking beside streams and running through fields.

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In the first stanza, the speaker excitedly offers to tell the lamb the answer.

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The speaker, too, is a child, and both the speaker and the lamb share the name of their creator.

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The speaker then asks God thrice to bless the lamb.

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“The Lamb” is a religious poem that marvels at the wonders of God’s creation.

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The poem rhetorically asks, “who made thee,” but everything that follows is presented as evidence that God is the maker.

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The second stanza depicts the lamb in its natural habitat, a beautiful pastoral scene in which the lamb is free to run around.

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Both the lamb and the speaker, who is a child, are “called by his name.”

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Though the Christian God is often associated with power and might—and even, at times, violence—the lamb is none of these things. It is small, fragile, and innocent.

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