Every day, the truth is the hardest pill to swallow. Most of the time we open the medicine cabinet and pretend not to see it while we take two tablets of hope and swallow it quick to feel the happier, elating effects faster. It’s much easier to push out the truth than to accept it. These ideas are very clear in William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” and Rosanna Warren’s “In Creve Coeur, Missouri.” Two children in different parts of the world are forced into unimaginable circumstances that can only be escaped through their deaths. With incredibly vivid imagery and specific poetic choices, we easily relate to these characters who have been forced out of innocence into the harsh reality of truth.
Losing innocence is the beginning of our life long struggles to …show more content…
In the second stanza the narrator witnesses Tom’s loss of innocence: “There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head / That curled like a lamb’s back, was shaved:” (Stanza 2). The image of Tom crying because he was losing his hair is so vivid. We often take little things like that for granted. Losing his hair wasn’t about vanity; it was a choice being taken away from Tom. The word ‘independence’ is very interesting because it seems like something to look forward to. What ends up happening to most people is that they become a slave to their work and no longer have the ability to choose what they do and don’t want to do because every choice comes out of necessity. What we need to survive will always have to come before what we want and what makes us happy. In the first stanza of “In Creve Coeur, Missouri,” Rosanna Warren thoughtfully begins with the description of the photographer as an amateur. After reading the poem all the way through, this image stood out because this photographer was taking his first steps in his career by capturing a moment that wasn’t meant to be shared with strangers, let alone being seen as a piece of art. A fireman attempts to save the life of a little
Losing innocence is the beginning of our life long struggles to …show more content…
In the second stanza the narrator witnesses Tom’s loss of innocence: “There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head / That curled like a lamb’s back, was shaved:” (Stanza 2). The image of Tom crying because he was losing his hair is so vivid. We often take little things like that for granted. Losing his hair wasn’t about vanity; it was a choice being taken away from Tom. The word ‘independence’ is very interesting because it seems like something to look forward to. What ends up happening to most people is that they become a slave to their work and no longer have the ability to choose what they do and don’t want to do because every choice comes out of necessity. What we need to survive will always have to come before what we want and what makes us happy. In the first stanza of “In Creve Coeur, Missouri,” Rosanna Warren thoughtfully begins with the description of the photographer as an amateur. After reading the poem all the way through, this image stood out because this photographer was taking his first steps in his career by capturing a moment that wasn’t meant to be shared with strangers, let alone being seen as a piece of art. A fireman attempts to save the life of a little