The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot From the morn to the evening he strays He shall follow his sheep all the day, And his tongue shall be filld with praise. ![]() (circa) or BCE.ġ821 Medium Wood engraving on off-white wove paper Dimensions Image: 3.5 × 7.3 cm (1 7/16 × 2 7/8 in.) Sheet: 3.7 × 7.7 cm (1 1/2 × 3 1/16 in.) Credit Line William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment Reference Number 1934.63 IIIF Manifest Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. GradeSaver, Web.About this artwork Status Currently Off View Department Prints and Drawings Artist William Blake Title Shepherd Chases Away Wolf, from The Pastorals of Virgil Place England (Artist's nationality) Dateĭates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. "Songs of Innocence and of Experience “The Lamb” Summary and Analysis". Next Section "The Little Black Boy" Summary and Analysis Previous Section "The Ecchoing Green" Summary and Analysis Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Gordon, Todd. The Creator, here identified specifically as Jesus Christ by his title of “Lamb of God,” displays these characteristics in his design of the natural and human world, and in His offer of salvation to all (hence the child is also “called by his name”) through his incarnation (“he became a little child”) and presumably his death and resurrection. Then the direct revelation of the Scripture comes into play. The lamb stands in relation to the boy as the boy stands in relation to his elders each must learn the truth of his existence by questioning the origin of his life and inferring a Creator who possesses the same characteristics of gentleness, innocence, and loving kindness as both the lamb and the child. One of Blake’s most strongly religious poems, “The Lamb” takes the pastoral life of the lamb and fuses it with the Biblical symbolism of Jesus Christ as the “Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” By using poetic rhetorical questions, the speaker, who is probably childlike rather than actually a child, creates a sort of lyric catechism in which the existence of both a young boy and a tender lamb stand as proof of a loving, compassionate Creator. ![]() The soft vowel sounds and repetition of the “l” sound may also convey the soft bleating of a lamb. By keeping the rhymes simple and close-knit, Blake conveys the tone of childlike wonder and the singsong voice of innocent boys and girls. When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene When Mary and Susan and Emily With their. The speaker finishes by blessing the lamb in God’s name.Įach stanza of “ The Lamb” has five couplets, typifying the AABB rhyme scheme common to Blake's Innocence poems. He goes on to explain that this Creator is meek and mild, and Himself became a little child. The speaker then tells the lamb that the one who made it is also called “the Lamb” and is the creator of both the lamb and the speaker. He asks if the lamb knows who made it, who provides it food to eat, or who gives it warm wool and a pleasant voice. The speaker, identifying himself as a child, asks a series of questions of a little lamb, and then answers the questions for the lamb.
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