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    Aeril Rolley AP Literature and Composition Heather Ross 23 February 2015 William Blake’s Chimney Sweeper Poems Analysis Both of William Blake’s poems reflects on the heart wrenching and unfortunate things young boys in the late 1700s were forced to do as chimney sweepers‚ yet their point of views and tones are quite different. Whereas in the first poem‚ Blake uses an innocent and undeserving young boy as the speaker to project a tone of naiveté while in the second poem he creates a speaker that

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    anti-industrial revolution it was a harsh time for children due to not being wanted and more of a need of money to the parents. In the Chimney SweeperWilliam Blake describes the rough conditions the children went through. Parents were struggling due to the lack of money and choose to sell their children. They sold them to a hard working shorter life. An example in the Chimney Sweeper is‚ “my father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry ‘Weep! Weep! Weep!’.” His father never knew his son and the words

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    Jessica Bologna AP English Lit. P. 4 In the two poems The Chimney Sweeper William Blake addresses the political issue presented at the time: the morality of the children sweepers. Blake attempts to describe the working conditions through two perspectives‚ one being through the eyes of an experienced chimney sweeper and the other through the eyes of the innocent. In the eyes of the experienced‚ the conditions described are explicit whereas the one through the eyes of the innocent are implicit

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    William Blake’s "The Chimney Sweeper" offers a graphic portrayal of a particular cultural aspect of England in the 1790s. By examining my interactions with the poem‚ I will attempt to analyse and contrast my own belief system against that which is presented in the text. Blake’s poem was initially very striking to me. While reading the first stanza‚ I was shocked and horrified by the imagery presented by the young narrator. I felt compelled to cry for the poor boy‚ and then became angry

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    The Chimney Sweeper and The Road Not Taken The Road Not Taken and The Chimney Sweeper are both interesting pieces of work‚ which have similarities in their meaning‚ interpretations‚ and author’s experiences that shaped the writings. Of course‚ there are also differences in these areas as well. The meaning of each written work can vary widely from person to person. The Chimney Sweeper and The Road Not Taken can both be interpreted in several ways‚ including that of a loss of innocence. One

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    William Blake: a man with ideas far ahead of his time‚ a dreamer‚ and had true poetic talent. Blake was an engraver‚ who wrote two groups of corresponding poems‚ namely The Songs of Experience‚ and The Songs of Innocence. Songs of Innocence was written originally as poems for children‚ but was later paired up with The Songs of Experience‚ which he wrote to highlight what he felt were society’s most prominent problems. This essay will be focusing on ‘The Chimney Sweeper.’ Firstly‚ I’ll look at The

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    Compare and contrast Blakes depictions of society in ‘The Ecchoing Green’ and ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ In ‘The Ecchoing green’‚ Blake depicts a society that is very much in touch with nature. On the other hand‚ in ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ he presents a communitythat has been destroyed through it’s mistreatment of children. In the first verse of ‘The Ecchoing Green’ the impression of a rural community is given and that society in this poem is very much in touch with enjoying the beauty of outdoors.

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    poems and works that many of us today have analyzed and even criticized. During this time‚ several poets were kind of actively involved in a literary movement known as Romanticism and they were William BlakeWilliam Wordsworth‚ John Keats‚ Samuel Coleridge and other famous poets in his time. William Blake as one of the members of the movement can be considered as a very radical poet during that time for he was somehow preoccupied with the issues of liberalism‚ radicalism and also nationalism later

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    language‚ William Blake expressed his abhorrence of the Church’s deep-rooted stance on faith; such a stance on Christianity was considered blasphemous‚ but he could not be charged with a crime. He believed that with true spirituality‚ the individual could fully engage in their faith and attain eternal salvation without the intrusion of organized religion—for the Church is solely concerned with subduing Christians with an orthodox emphasis on reason. Its rigid practice of faith‚ Blake denounced

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    Songs of Innocence and of Experience Themes by William Blake Major Themes The Destruction of Innocence Throughout both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience‚ Blake repeatedly addresses the destruction of childlike innocence‚ and in many cases of children’s lives‚ by a society designed to use people for its own selfish ends. Blake romanticizes the children of his poems‚ only to place them in situations common to his day‚ in which they find their simple faith in parents or God challenged by

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