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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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    Name Date The Chimney Sweeper William Blake The Chimney Sweeper‚ by William Blake‚ has two versions. One‚ written in 1789‚ which is twice as long as the second‚ written in 1794. However‚ both versions paint a picture of how child labor was during the time; one having more of a somber side‚ while the other is more hopeful. None-the-less‚ both were very important writings and hit the culture hard enough to encourage a change. Blake did this by using powerful forms of word choice‚ imagery‚ and

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    “The Chimney SweeperSongs of Innocence & Experience analysis with‚ William Blake In 1794 William Blake’s work was known and published as a collection of poems that were put together as one book called Songs of innocence & Songs of Experience. In the collection Blake titles a poem‚ “The Chimney Sweeper”‚ and this one is viewed in two ways: Innocence and experience. In the book of innocence Blake shows how poor innocent children are being abused and mistreated during this time era. In Songs

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    “The Chimney Sweeper” In Williams Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Innocence the boy sees his situation through the eyes of innocence and does not understand the social injustice in his situation. “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Experience the speaker sees his injustice of the child and speaks against the people that left him behind. The different views in one poem enlighten the different views in the other poem. The thoughts that are expressed in Innocence contrast the thoughts expressed

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    poems‚ “The Chimney Sweeper‚” syntactically resemble one another through Blake’s employment of the ampersand and a fairly simplistic rhyme scheme; however‚ the tone in the first poem remains naïve and innocent as the speaker personally describes critical moments of coping with the atrocities of chimney-sweeping while the second poem employs a more cynical or accusatory tone as the point of view shifts from the speaker’s plight to the plight of all individuals succumbed to all atrocities. Blake‚ in turn

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    William Blake wrote ?The Chimney Sweeper?‚ in 1789. This poem tells the story of a young chimneysweeper and his dream. The analysis will cover the poem’s figurative language and it’s meanings and goals. Lines 1-4 The first line does not include any poetic element. It hit with the reality and the brutality of its meaning. The second line’s tone however is enough to be a verse "while yet my tongue". Blake‚ by omitting the first letter of the word sweep in the third verse‚ seemingly recreates the child’s

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    Jorge Raygoza 31/01/14 Experience or innocence‚ which is better? In Blake’s poem “The chimney sweeper” he shows us two different perspectives of the same poem. In the “Songs of Innocence”‚ the character in "The Chimney Sweeper" sees his situation through the eyes of a child full of innocence and joy. He only sees the positive things of what he has been through; additionally‚ he thinks that all will be better

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    The Chimney Sweeper Thesis Blake uses many literary devices to portray the hopeless life of the young chimney sweeps. I. Irony II. Imagery III. Symbolism William Blake masterfully uses many literary devices to portray the hopeless life of a young chimney sweep in his poem “The Chimney Sweeper”. The poem has a young‚ nameless first person narrator which gives the poem a sense of youthful innocence and anonymity that is in direct contradiction to the horrible conditions they suffer. Most

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    William Blake wrote two versions of his poem “The Chimney Sweeper”‚ firstly in 1789 and secondly in 1794. They both describe the lives of children as chimney sweeps. Three poetic techniques carefully explored by Blake are imagery‚ tone and diction to bring a sense of sympathy to his audience. Though these poetic techniques are handled in both poems‚ they are shown through different perspectives. In both versions of the poem‚ images of death are depicted similarly using the color black. In the

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    Social Criticism in William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake criticises child labour and especially society that sees the children’s misery but chooses to look away and it reveals the change of the mental state of those children who were forced to do such cruel work at the age of four to nine years. It shows the change from an innocent child that dreams of its rescue to the child that has accepted its fate. Those lives seem to oppose each other and yet if one reads

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