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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created feelings of despair within William Blake‚ who is considered one of the first Romantics by many. "The Chimney Sweeper" in "Songs of Innocence" by Blake is a criticism of the treatment of child workers during the Industrial Revolution. It describes the life of a chimney sweeper who was sold into the trade by his parents. The children are described as sleeping in the soot: "So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (4). One
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considered this unavoidable‚ child labor was a topic that they did not discuss openly in social groups. Blake wanted to change all of that. As a social critic‚ he wrote many poems condemning the hypocrisy between these two worlds‚ for example‚ "The Chimney Sweeper‚" "London‚" and "The Garden of Love." In "London‚" Blake reveals that this hypocrisy has robbed the world of innocence and spirit. In the first two lines‚ Blake repeats the word "charter ’d." He uses this repetition to stress the mechanical behavior
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Warnings: If the occupier gives someone a fair warning then the occupier cannot be sued if his warning is ignored. Look at this case for instance‚ Roles V Nathan (1963)‚ a chimney sweeper turnt up at a mans house and was told not to sweep his chimney as there was a leakage‚ but he ignored the warnings and the sweeper was poisoned and died. Independent Contractors: The law says that where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty executions of any work of constructions‚ maintance
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rude animal. Unfortunately‚ Blake leaves the audience in total awe about both The Tyger and The Lamb. Another poem written by Blake is The Chimney Sweeper. The Chimney Sweeper focuses on the after life and what we have to look forward to. All you can do is dream and imagine of one day getting to “heaven” and what it would be like. For Tom‚ the chimney sweeper‚ he dreaded his life. He was an orphan and a homeless child looking forward to nothing. As he lay his head to go to sleep‚ an angel appeared
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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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Blake was an English poet who was born in 1757 and died in 1827. Blake was part of the Romantic Age. Although Blake was largely unrecognized as a poet during his lifetime‚ his work was bizarre for those times. His poetry was reverent to the Bible‚ but hostile to the Church of England. The fact that ................... are evident in his poetry‚ especially these two poems. Nature The Echoing Green (innocence) This poem depicts a conventional village in which a whole day’s cycle is portrayed.
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high demand for many types of jobs including mining‚ factory work‚ street sweepers‚ clothing and hat makers‚ chimney sweeps‚ farming‚ textile mills‚ servants‚ and sadly‚ prostitution. As you may have already noticed‚ the British had very little regard for children. Victorian Child Labor was prevalent in the Victorian Era. Here is a list of several types of jobs that children did. List: Coal mines Laundry for pay Chimney Sweep Sweated Trades Factory Worker Matchmaking Scare the birds from
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In the second stanza‚ the speaker focuses on two specific occupations‚ the chimney sweeper and the soldier. The word blackening in the second line of the 3rd stanza is used in an interesting context. Why would a church be blackening? Blackening can mean getting dirty‚ but I don’t think that the speaker is using the word blackening in that sense. I think it means that the church doesn’t want to dirty it’s hands on the chimney sweeper’s problems. In the next sentence‚ there is a similar relationship
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Near where the charter’d Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness‚ marks of woe. In every cry of every Man‚ In every Infants cry of fear‚ In every voice: in every ban‚ The mind-forg’d manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every black’ning Church appalls‚ And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But most thro’ midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage
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