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    Corruption of authority can consume an individual or even an entire society. Both of William Blake’s 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

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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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    position on “The Chimney Sweeper” William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper‚” written in 1789‚ tells the story of what happened to many young boys during this time period in England. Too often‚ boys as young as five years old were being sold for the soul purpose of cleaning chimneys because of their small size. Blake does an amazing job at effecting me with this poem because you can really feel the pain of the poor boy Tom in the poem. Even though I had never heard of Chimney Sweepers before‚ Blake made

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    Mathew English 102-37 The Chimney Sweeper In the British Industrial Revolution child labor was next to free. Mothers were killing their bastard children in horrific ways and there were orphans by the thousands. In the poem The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake‚ I noticed the story talked of the life and conditions of orphans during this era. So I researched more about why they had to live like that. I Found that their country was going through the industrial revolution‚ families sold

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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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    “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 1789 version‚ the speaker says that chimney sweeps

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    William Blake poem ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ reveals the traumatic fate of a poor chimneysweeper whose mother died when he was very young. So‚ the father sold the lad (either because of the fact that he could not take care of him or for greed). It’s the poet’s imaginary quality that has clearly made the poem a blend between a wonderful dream and the actual reality of life. Besides this illustration between the realistic and picture perfect world the poem also beautifully explicates the joy and pain‚

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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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    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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    of Children in William Blake’s “Chimney Sweeper Nujhat Afrin Abstract: This study of the poems‚ present a contradiction between the states of innocence and experience‚ two phases through which all people must pass. Here we see the naturalistic world of childhood against the world of corruption. The poem “The Chimney Sweeper” is set against the dark background of child labor that was well known in England in the late 18th and 19th century. The poems (Chimney Sweeper in innocence and Experience) are

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