In the article “The Language of Speakers in Songs of Innocence and of Experience” by Harriet Kramer Linkin, the author states that William Blake uses idiolects that demonstrate how characters organize their way of thinking. He believes that Blake’s use of linguistic patterns were interrupted by verbal differences that made up an ironic tension that inspires us to look at the bigger picture and reality of it all. In “The Chimney Sweeper” (of innocence), Blake uses imagery to represent biblical ideas and makes up his own symbols in the poem, as well as traditional ones. Blake uses religion as a way to ignore the unbearable reality, to which leads up to loss of innocence.
Linkin points out Blake’s technique of interrupting the narrator’s idiolect
Linkin points out Blake’s technique of interrupting the narrator’s idiolect