William Blake uses symbolic language to create extended metaphors about the lamb. He talks about the creator of the lamb giving it "clothing of delight." Delight is obviously not a

This poem is an apostrophe as a whole. It is also an extended metaphor. Its is also and extended personification. It shows the whole connectedness of all things, it connects it all with the creator, the lamb, Jesus, through the use of the extended metaphor.

"I a child & thou a lamb," with this sentence William Blake connects all things to Jesus the creator. That single line has a deeper connotation than it seems. The child is saying that he and the lamb were created by the same being, but it also implies that ALL things were created by the same being. The line after it helps to empower that deeper connotation. It says that "we are called by his name," the child and the lamb, but also everyone. The reader reads this, and "we" stands for them, it becomes personalized.

There are many deep levels to the poem t

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