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 both
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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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How did William Blake and Grace Nichols present a place they know well? The ways in which Blake and Nichols present a place they know well are completely different‚ one is seen as a horrible place and is told to be a horrible place‚ but the other is seen as paradise‚ the best place on earth‚ with sun‚ sea‚ great views‚ the lot. Throughout the whole of the poem ‘London’ we can see Blake is telling us the miseries of London‚ what a horrible‚ dreary‚ miserable place it is‚ ‘In every cry of every
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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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BLAKE Chimney Sweeper Many little boys die from chimney sweeping‚ “Songs of Innocence” The Lamb The lamb is a common metaphor for Jesus Christ‚ who is also called the "The Lamb of God" in John 1:29 London The poem reflects Blake’s extreme disillusionment with the suffering he saw in London The Garden of Love "The Garden of Love" is written to express Blake’s beliefs on the naturalness of sexuality and how organised religion‚ particularly the orthodox Christian church of Blake’s time with
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The Time Sweepers is a short story written by Canadian author Ursula-Wills Jones. The story focuses on a group of invisible people called “time sweepers”. These “time sweepers” are described as blue people wearing overalls if they are men and “old fashioned tweed jackets” if they are women. “Time Sweepers” sweep up wasted time. If Time Sweepers did not exist‚ we would be stuck in a world of infinite time. The Time Sweepers do not like taking holidays as it loses time. The story seems to focus around
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who is almost a stranger to her as well. In India she knew all of her neighbours and she was a fun and outgoing girl‚ who loved to tell jokes. Now she can be described as the weather is described in the story; The sky loomed large and grey over the chimney tops and television aerials. Lata missed the drama of colours played out in the sky. She observed it had been the same dull grey throughout the day. This quote performs like a metaphor that shows Lata’s dissatisfaction about her new existents. She
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Angel Clifford Clifford 1 Ms. MacArthur English 2 3 March 2013 E.E Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings‚ more commonly known as E.E Cummings‚ was born on October 14‚ 1894. He was well known for his poetry. “Little Tree”‚ “Selected Poems”‚ and “Eimi“ are just some of his books of poetry‚ but does this make him securely canonized as major or minor? Richard S. Kennedy explains his point of view. He says Cummings would be a major minor poet. Someone who is considered minor
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In Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s words “Literature does not grow or develop in a vacuum; it is given impetus‚ shape‚ direction or even area of concern by social‚ political and economic forces in a particular society” (Homecoming‚ 1972). This statement shows how the Kenyan writer associates literature with a typical process of development and evolution. As such‚ literature cannot avoid‚ while gradually gaining ground‚ undergoing or facing some important changes. This notion applies to all literary genres
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