The importance of lamb

“The Tyger” was published by William Blake in Songs of Experience (1794). It is considered one of Blake’s best known and most analyzed poems and I intend to analyze the importance of Jesus’ reference. When I read this sentence “Did he who made the lamb make thee?”, I associated the lamb to Jesus Christ because the Bible refers to Jesus as a Lamb of God who died for the sins of his people like other lambs which were sacrificed daily with the same purpose in that era. On the nineteenth line “Did he smile his work to see?”, the speaker confirms that the poem talks about Jesus because He felt satisfied to see his work and the twelfth and thirteenth lines give us more details about Jesus’ crucification : “What dread hand and what dread feet? / What the hammer? What the chain?”, but the poem also calls our attention for the predominant interrogative form, and we should provide answers. Why did Jesus suffer all those situations if He is the son of God? He can be considered God himself but he was on Earth as a human being so he felt each pain on the cross as on the eleventh line: “And, when thy heart began to beat”. So, almost all lines remind us of Jesus crucification with some important details of His life and His death.

By Vanessa Martins Ferreira

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2 respostas para The importance of lamb

  1. Douglas dos Santos Fonseca disse:

    Let’s thinking about John 3:16

    “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”.

    For me this quote of Holy Bible complete the poem.

  2. Vanessa disse:

    And the author could be totally influenced by the Bible when he wrote this poem like the majority read the poem thinking of the Bible’s texts.

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