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Pre-romanticism Blakes Life Blakes Work The Lamb The Tiger Blakes Work Writing features Major Literary Works Blakes Work Blake’s poems seem easy but difficult to understand for his mysterious images and symbols, unless versed in ( skilled at ) religious knowledge. Blake’s poems are full of emotion and apparent presentation of his progressive democratic idea in symbolism. He presents his view in visual images rather that abstract ideas. And his poetry was full of colors, just like sky and grass. Blakes Work Songs of Innocence (1789) A lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings. Blakes Work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) his first prophetical work and most important prose work; explore the relationship of the contraries Blakes Work Songs of Experience (1794) present a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone Blakes Work Auguries of Innocence The Lamb Four parts: Translation Poetic structure Rhetorical devices Theme The poem ends with the child bestowing（赠与） a blessing on the lamb.“The Lamb” has two stanzas, each containing five rhymed couplets（对句）. Repetition in the first and last couplet of each stanza makes these lines into a refrain（叠句，重复）, and helps to give the poem its song-like quality. The flowing soft vowel sounds contribute to this effect, and also suggest the bleating（羊的鸣叫） of a lamb or the lisping（发音不清的） character of a child’s chant（圣歌）. Theme The lamb is a common metaphor for Jesus Christ, who is also called the “The Lamb of God”. Blake in the songs of innocence《天真之歌》，with childish life‘s point of view，shows a full of love and kindness, compassion and happy world. The lamb is one of the poetry anthology(选集). The poem has just 20 lines, but depict the character of gentleness vividly. The poet’s description about the lamb’s kindness and gentleness , aims to express their a feeling of life and nature, and the yearning(渴望) for t