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    knowing‚” according to Lucille Clifton‚ a famous American writer and educator. The best example of this wondering is shown in the poem “The Chimney Sweeper”. “The Chimney Sweeper”‚ written by William Blake in 1789‚ is a poem that reflects a shameful eighteenth century social problems. It shows the exploitations to the little children—the chimney sweepers. Those sweepers are even too young to have their own complete thoughts‚ but they are still on their own effort to seek comfort in this suffering situation

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    Chipper Jones ENGL 1102 Final Essay Cierra Winkler December 3‚ 2010 The Masterpiece From William Blake The Romantic era of literature involved very subjective‚ personal‚ emotional‚ and imaginative writing. In William Blake’s poem “The Chimney Sweeper”‚ part of his collection from Songs of Innocence‚ a young boy gives readers some insight into what life was like for people in his line of work. During the late 1700’s and into the early 1800’s‚ a person’s well-being was determined by the social

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    labor. Children work under illegal‚ hazardous‚ and exploitative conditions each day risking their lives. Many of these children have their opportunity for an education taken away to work under harmful circumstances. William Blake’s poem “The Chimney Sweeper” was written to help aware and prevent child labor. William Blake wrote a poem to aware the society of child labor in Britain. A real life event inspired him to write his poem about the injustice being done to the children. Child labor is exploitation

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    social issues and made appeals to the public to take the initiative and do something about these mishaps. Thomas Hood’s “The Song of the Shirt” and Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” are both fitting examples of this. Both pieces implore the public to open their eyes to what is occurring around them either directly or indirectly. “The Chimney Sweeper” and “The Song of the Shirt” both took place around the same time of the late 1700’s closer to the 1800’s. Due to this‚ they have the similar historical influences

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    In his poem‚ "The Chimney Sweeper"‚ William Blake displays the despondent urban life of a young chimney sweeper during the coming of the industrial revolution in order to emphasize the theme of innocence through Marxism and to inform people of the harsh working conditions during the times of child labor promoting political reform. William Blake was born in London on November 28‚ 1757‚ to James and Catherine Blake. From early childhood‚ Blake spoke of having visions. He learned to read and write at

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    Style Used - MLA Through the voice of innocence in “The Chimney Sweeper”‚ William Blake uses irony to shine a light on the treatment and horrid conditions of child chimney sweepers. The poem serves as a public commentary on the ills of society as Blake sees the use of children as chimney sweepers to be. This makes the overall tone of the poem one of sadness and conveys the compassion Blake feels for the plight of the child chimney sweepers. Blake first uses irony in the opening lines of the poem

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    Ignorance During the Industrial Revolution in England in the 18th century‚ numerous children were forced into the child labor to support the growing economy. These children were deprived of their childhood and William Blake the author of “ The Chimney Sweeper” wanted to depict society’s ignorance of child labor and raise awareness towards its injustice. Blake appeals to the reader’s sense of morality to draw attention to the corruption that was sweeping the nation through child labor. Blake cleverly

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    surrounded religious establishments with distrust. He saw these as unwarranted controls over the freedom of the individual and contrary to the nature of a God of liberty. Figures such as the school master in the ‘schoolboy’‚ the parents in the ‘chimney sweeper’ poems‚ the guardians of the poor in the ‘Holy Thursday’‚ Ona’s father in ‘A Little girl lost’ and the priestly representatives of organised religion in many of the poems‚ are for Blake the embodiment of evil restriction. In the Garden of

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