The Lamb along with several other of Blake's poems, in the 1970s. The Lamb "The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in "Songs of Innocence" in 1776. "The Lamb" is the counterpart poem to Blake's poem: "The Tyger" in "Songs of Experience". Blake wrote "Songs of Innocence" as a contrary to the "Songs of Experience" – a central tenet in his philosophy and a central theme in his work. Like many of Blake's works, the poem is about Christianity. The lamb is a common metaphor for Jesus Christ, who is also called "The Lamb of God" in John 1:29. This
In the Forests of the Night she received in the seventh grade when her best friend Jessica had chosen "The Tyger" for the assignment. The character of Risika was taken from the brief mention in Atwater-Rhodes' unpublished novel, "Red Wine". She began working on the novel in 1997, under the title "White Wine", and during the writing process with the novel, two incidents had accord, Atwater-Rhodes began suffering from writer's block and then her computer crashed from a virus during the months of July and August. In the original manuscript the character of Ather was to play the antagonist but after the loss of her computer