... departments. Frosts comparison of ants and the government are that only the busy ants are interested in their own duty, also when the ants see one of their dead they just carry on with business without an emotion or reaction; there is a strong parallelism to the human society. His message is unmistakable ... when you reach the resolution of the poem: "It couldn't be called ungentle, but how thoroughly departmental." You cannot use more satire then this. He is in both poems making the society around him seem both unintelligent ... of sadness and mourning to his best friend. I feel the arr...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... and in the second verse it has all the answers. Taking a brief look at the poem a person would believe that it was written for children. The main reason for such perception would be the simple vocabulary that the poet uses. Also, the poem uses soft alliteration "little lamb- which gives a much softer feel to the poem and some might mistake it for children's poem ... important the contraries are in life in general. In both poems Blake questions multiple times about how each creature was created. In "The Lamb-, he suggests that the lamb was created by a godlike being. He reassures the rea...

• Word Count: 2099
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School