Literary Response to William Blake’s The Lamb Poetry is a bittersweet form of literature because as beautiful as it is to read aloud, it’s just as difficult to analyze and interpret its meanings. William Blake uses his rhythmic poem, The Lamb, to portray the innocence of the lamb and how it relates to the innocence of a child, both of which are God’s creations. William Blake throws his audience deep into the motifs of his poem with the first two lines of his poem: Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? (1-2) Immediately the audience knows that this poem is going to consist of inspiration behind creation, and of something young, hence the word, “little.” Blake was a romantic poet who used rhyme in many of his poems such