The Lamb

Question 1

How many stanzas does ‘The lamb’ Have?

Answer 1

2

Question 2

What does the repetition in the first and last couplet of each stanza turn the lines into in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 2

A refrain
* makes its song-like

Question 3

What do the soft ‘L’ sounds and soft vowel sounds contribute to in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 3

Bring forth the bleating of a lamb/ lispin of a child
* contributes to the child like rhythms

Question 4

What does the lamb symbolise in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 4

• represents gods divine creation,
• jesus himself is described as the ‘lamb of god’ which reinforeces gods capacity for kindness

Question 5

what does the lamb being vulnerbael symbolise in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 5

That god is also vulnerbale

Question 6

What does the lamb showcase gods capacity for in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 6

That god is tender and gentle

Question 7

What does the speaker find wonderfula botu the lamb in ‘The lamb’

Answer 7

That its very existence seems to celebrate gods powers

Question 8

What form does ‘The lamb’ have? how many stanzas?

Answer 8

Simple form
* Two ten line stanzas
* frames the poem as a question in stanza one
* an answer in stanza two

Question 9

What does the regular meter provide in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 9

That the poem is purposeful
* it give the poem an emphatic quality

Question 10

What does the form represent in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 10

The form is symmetrical which represents the beauty and purposefulness of gods creations

Question 11

Who is the speaker in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 11

Somone in awe of gods creations

Question 12

Who does the speaker claim to be in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 12

A child
* chidhood is not a state of ignorance but rather wisdom

Question 13

Who could the speaker really be in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 13

It could be that the speaker is not a child but rather someone who maintained a childlike mindset due to beleiveing in god

Question 14

Summarise ‘The lamb’

Answer 14

*The poet speaks to the lamb, asking if it knows who is responsible for creating it
* he goes into detail about christ while using repetition to emphasise this

Question 15

What is the setting of ‘The lamb’?

Answer 15

• Not a defined setting however there is descriptions of an idyllic pastoral scene
• not the industrial urban area blake criqtiques

Question 16

What is the lambs natural environment linked to in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 16

happiness
(nature = happiness)

Question 17

“he”, “he”, “he”, “i” “we”

Answer 17

*Pronouns
* emphasise gods importance
*didactic

Question 18

“Little lamb ill tell thee
Little lamb ill tell thee”

Answer 18

• anaphora - answers question asked at the beginnign of stanza one
• emphasies the beauty that the speaker is filled with entusiasm for
• a revelation
• lambs are frequently used to symbolise sacrifise

Question 19

What does ‘The lamb’ connect the lamb to?

Answer 19

Jesus christ
* symbolises humanity/purity
* message about how we are all apart of something bigger

Question 20

“He callls himself a lamb
he is meek and mind”

Answer 20

• Alliteration - gentle and kind
• kesus being presented as a lamb contrsts with organised religion in other poems

Question 21

What does blake present Jesus as in ‘The lamb’?

Answer 21

“meek and mild”

Question 22

What is god often referred to as?

Answer 22

‘lamb of god’

Question 23

“Gave thee suvh a tender voice
making all the vales rejoice”

Answer 23

• the lambs voice affects all of nature
• the child asked tha lamb who is made him whcih is repeated throughout the first stanza - this marks the childs innocence
• This is the first stage in blakes journey to the truthha

Question 24

What does the speaker express throughout ‘the lamb’?

Answer 24

His love/appreciation for god

Question 25

What is the purpose of 'the lamb'?

Answer 25

To invite the audience to 'use' the image of the lamb as a means to question the creation of the universe

Question 26

"Little lamb god bless thee Little lamb god bless thee"

Answer 26

* Prosaic lexis - normal/mundane everyday language - lyrical like a nursery rhyme to emphasises the speakers marvel

Question 27

"By the stream and over the mead" and "vales rejoice"

Answer 27

* Patoral imagery * converys the innocent links between beauty, nature and power

Question 28

What are lambs associated with?

Answer 28

Spring = renewal and new year

Question 29

What is present throughout 'the lamb'

Answer 29

Pastoral imagery

Question 30

"He became a little child"

Answer 30

*The lamb is vulnerble = god is therefore vulnerbale * christ was a child when he first appeared on this earth as son of God

Question 31

What is nature symbolic of?

Answer 31

The nature throughout 'the lamb' is symbol of the pure, gentleness it can bring through animals such as a lamb

Question 32

What does easter symbolise?

Answer 32

The lamb, the resurrection and new beginnings

Question 33

What does the lamb celebreate?

Answer 33

Gods powers * it also showcases gods capacity for tenderness/gentleness * blake's idea of god was him as a loving father

Question 34

What does the simplicity in 'The lamb' Represent?

Answer 34

the childs perspective that explores a deep question about life and creation * makes it easy to realte to

Question 35

What is the poem a reminder of?

Answer 35

Its a remider to those who are in the cyclical machine of the industrial relation that there is an innocent world still out there

Question 36

"Little lamb who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee"

Answer 36

* Alliteration emphasises the innocence * soft soothing 'l' = innocence

Question 37

What does blake use the question of "little lamb who made thee" to reflect>

Answer 37

Uses it to reflect a man questioning the whole of creation

Question 38

What does blake intend for the question "who made the"?

Answer 38

he intends it as a question he means to adreess all the people of his time, especially to those stuck in industrialisation or the travails of war * he ist rying to remind them that innocence still ecists, we just need to allow ourselves to access it

Question 39

What is an apostrophe?

Answer 39

Where the speaker talks to someone who cant respondq

Question 40

What does the use of the apostrophe in 'The lamb' establish?

Answer 40

a reflective/ philosophical tone, it establishes a gpcis on the idea of creation * creates a sense of wonder

Question 41

"softest" "wooly" "tender"

Answer 41

Childlike innocence

Question 42

What does 'the lamb' convey?>

Answer 42

The spirit of childhood

Question 43

What does the refrain throighout 'the lamb' provide?

Answer 43

A nursery rhume

Question 44

Provide an example of refrain in 'the lamb'

Answer 44

"Little lamb"

Question 45

What is the tone of 'the lamb'

Answer 45

Gentle and comforting = a good poem for someone who needs comforting