The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence) Summary The speaker of this poem is a small boy who was sold into the chimney-sweeping business when his mother died. He recounts the story of a fellow chimney sweeper‚ Tom Dacre‚ who cried when his hair was shaved to prevent vermin and soot from infesting it. The speaker comforts Tom‚ who falls asleep and has a dream or vision of several chimney sweepers all locked in black coffins. An angel arrives with a special key that opens the locks on the coffins
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innovative which leads to a new understanding. It is a collection of lessons that a person goes through during their lifetime. The contrast between innocence and experience is portrayed in Blake’s poems Infant Joy‚ Infant Sorrow and The Chimney Sweeper (innocence)‚ The Chimney Sweeper (experience) through the use of metaphors‚ symbolism‚ imagery‚ juxtaposition‚ emotive language‚ repetition‚ alliteration and assonance. This essay will examine the notions of innocence and experience through references to
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throughout the first and last word. “How the chimney-sweeper’s cry/Every black’ning church appalls”(Blake 9-10). With this line you can just see chimney sweepers crying with all the soot in there eyes‚ causing those tears to come. Why would a church be blackening? Blackening can mean getting dirty‚ but I do not think that the speaker uses the word blackening in that sense. I believe to mean that the church does not want to get dirty hands from the chimney sweeper’s problems. In the case of the blackening
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Analysis Of William Blake’s Poems Infant Joy Notes This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme‚ a contrast to most of Blake’s other poetic patterns. The rhyming words are always framed by the repetition of "thee" at the end of the fourth and sixth lines‚ drawing the reader’s attention to the parent‚ who speaks‚ and his or her concern with the baby. The infant’s words‚ or those imagined by the parent to be spoken by the infant‚ are set
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ideally‚ complement each other and are equally respected.” (Bishop) Some of his poems with the best examples were written in pairs‚ expressing each side of the archetype in separate poems. Blake uses outstanding archetypes in The Lamb‚ The Tyger‚ The Chimney Sweeper‚ and Infant Sorrow. First of all‚ William Blake writes about the archetype of gentle and naive in The Lamb. He slightly asks the question of who created the lamb. He wants to know if their intention was to create a creature who was so kind
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During the Romantic era‚ many significant events or occurrences had taken their places such as Industrial Revolution‚ French and American Revolution‚ Period of Enlightenment and also opposition to realism and scientific rationalization of nature. All of these events however‚ had triggered many poets to write or express their thoughts‚ beliefs and feelings through their poems and works that many of us today have analyzed and even criticized. During this time‚ several poets were kind of actively involved
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one looks through the mist perpetually hindering his or her sight‚ one can see that those are merely depictions of happiness that the media gives and that many would find truer to life. We see a world of darkness and soot portrayed in the poem “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake through the eyes of indentured children longing to die. Then a world where the fulfillment of dreams is based upon material wealth‚ the Younger family strives to overcome their hardships as they search for happiness. As
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of the poem will revolve around two aspects. First we will study the sense of entrapment pervading (qui parcourt) the poem as a sign that fate cannot be escaped; then we shall focus on the three figures of human suffering depicted by the poet: the chimney sweep‚ the soldier and the harlot. We will try to understand why he chose those and what violent criticism he makes through them. I. Sense of entrapment in the city of London A. A sharp discrepancy between freedom and constraint 1. A stroll
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deepest fears‚ desires‚ and truths. In “The Chimney Sweeper‚” William Blake utilizes literary devices of irony‚ diction‚ and rhythm throughout the poem. One literary tool Blake effectively uses is irony. Throughout‚ “The Chimney Sweeper‚” Blake uses different forms of irony to focus and control the reader’s attention. Dramatic irony is present because Blake allows‚ even demands‚ his audience to have a deeper understanding of the harshness of the chimney sweeper’s situation than the child is able
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Little Vagabond‚" Blake critiques the religious leaders of his day for their abuse of spiritual authority. The men who should be shepherds to their flocks are in fact reinforcing a political and economic system that turns children into short-lived chimney sweepers and that represses love and creative expression in adults. Blake has no patience with clergy who would assuage their own or their earthly patrons’ guilt by parading poor children through a church on Ascension Day‚ as in "Holy Thursday" from
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