E 314L Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Dilute Budgerigar Mutation, Starlight
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Gave thee such a tender voice: the lamb. 17: we are called by his name. Calls himself a lamb, one who resembles in his gentleness both the child and the lamb. The poem ends with the child bestowing a blessing on the lamb. The poem is a child"s song, in the form of a question and answer. The first stanza is rural and descriptive, while the second focuses on abstract spiritual matters and contains explanation and analogy. The child"s question is both naive and profound. The question ( who made thee? ) is a simple one, and yet the child is also tapping into the deep and timeless questions that all human beings have, about their own origins and the nature of creation. The poem"s apostrophic form contributes to the effect of naivet , since the situation of a child talking to an animal is a believable one, and not simply a literary contrivance.
