My suggestion is a bit different from the above
post.
Though, on the surface level, lamb seems to stand
just for innocence, but if analyzed deeply, the lamb in Blake's poem is a personal
symbol which signifies God himself. The lamb indicates the softer aspects of God, for
instance mercy, pity, forgiveness and so on. As the tiger of Blake's "The Tyger" from
the experience poems, signifies the harsher and harder attributes of God, like wrath,
rage, audaciousness etc., similarly "The Lamb" symbolizes some specific qualities of God
himself.
This innocence of the lamb (the kindness of God)
is a model for humankind. According to Blake, in order to bring peace and bliss, this
innocence is very important. In fact, all his innocence and experience poems, in pairs,
are foils for one another; and together, they make a sense.
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