Themes of the poem "The Shepherd"

1. Themes of the Shepherd
Topic:

2. Poet :
“William Blake”

3. “William Blake”

4. Poem is taken from his well
known book :
“The Songs of Innocence.”

5. Biography Of william Blake:
 Lifetime: (1757-1827)
 Age : Romantic Period.
 An English Poet , a Painter and a Printmaker.
 He was largely unrecognized during his age,
but he is now considered one of the best
poets in the history of English Literature.

6. Text of the poem :

7. Themes of the poem:
 Spirituality.
 This World.

8. Spirituality:
 In the title of the poem the word
Shepherd is written with the capital “S”
which shows that it is referring God.
 In this poem Shepherd is a God and the
lamb is a human being.
 Shepherd is compaired to God because he
has the ability to understand the voice of
lamb…as God understands what a humans
wants..!

9. Conti….
 Lamb feels secured and protected during the
presence of Shepherd so does a human too when
he realize that his God is there for him to
protect during hardships..
 Lamb and humans both are innocent
creatures. God knows what is in the heart of
a human… Similar is the case with the
Shepherd; he also knows what a lamb wants.
 Every prophet was a shepherd in the
beginning because it increases the level of
patience..because the animals are annoying
and the shepherd has to act calmly…

10. Contemporary world :
 The concept of this world is shared in the
poem because the poet was in romantic
period and during this age people were away
from God and Spirituality.
 Everyone was attached to materialistic things
and were enjoying it the best they could..
Blake want people of romantic period to
come closer to God and religion…

11. Conclusion…
William Blake shared beautiful ideas
in his poem that
 Firstly: the creator is always there for humans
and He listen to their innocent wishes.
 Secondly : He want the readers to sit in the
corner alone and to find his God and the way to
his religion..

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