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    Name Date The Chimney Sweeper William Blake The Chimney Sweeper‚ by William Blake‚ has two versions. One‚ written in 1789‚ which is twice as long as the second‚ written in 1794. However‚ both versions paint a picture of how child labor was during the time; one having more of a somber side‚ while the other is more hopeful. None-the-less‚ both were very important writings and hit the culture hard enough to encourage a change. Blake did this by using powerful forms of word choice‚ imagery‚ and

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    Social Criticism in William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake criticises child labour and especially society that sees the children’s misery but chooses to look away and it reveals the change of the mental state of those children who were forced to do such cruel work at the age of four to nine years. It shows the change from an innocent child that dreams of its rescue to the child that has accepted its fate. Those lives seem to oppose each other and yet if one reads

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    William Blake’s two poems “The Chimney Sweeper” in his books “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience” are centered on young children lives as chimney sweeps and the difficulties that come of the job‚ especially at such a young age. The poems are told from two different viewpoints‚ as the books titles suggest‚ one from ‘Experience’ and one from ‘Innocence.’ William Blake uses poetic imagery to convey the idea of the chimney sweep to the reader as well as using particular symbols to further convey

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    In The Chimney Sweeper from songs of experience written by William Blake is about a child who is forced to work as a chimney sweeper by his parents who are gone to pray at a nearby church. Blake does a good job expressing his feelings through the speakers and the way he uses his rhyme schemes. This poem is quite different because it contains two speakers. Many may read this and think this is a simple poem of a working child. However‚ that is not the message that Blake is trying to deliver‚ the message

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    Professor Woods English 101 23 September 2014 Ambiguity of Youth; A Literary Analysis of Themes within “The Chimney Sweeper” In modern times childhood is perceived as moments of fun and happiness‚ being carefree and joyous‚ with little responsibility or struggle. William Blake was born during the Industrial Revolution which‚ in part‚ helped to shape the Romantic Era that is the foundation of his literary works. Through his writings you see a vast contrast in modern day childhood reality

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    William Blake wrote two versions of his poem “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

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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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    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

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    on “The Chimney SweeperWilliam 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 me

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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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