Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Analyze Blake's "The Lamb" with respect to diction?

The repetition of words and phrases (the rhetorical device
anaphora) stresses the speaker’s innocent, childlike qualities and makes the structure
of the poem simple and clear. The diction is neutral and concrete, in keeping with the
speaker’s childlike character, and appropriate for the concept of a beneficent and
peaceful God. The Creator, like the lamb and the child, is meek and mild, loving and
gentle, simple and caring. The words all connote the most direct, least complicated view
of God that is possible. The use of the word meek suggests the third Beatitude (Matt.
5:5). Blake’s idea of God in this poem from The Songs of Innocence is that God is a God
of peace and love.

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