Chimney sweep

the poem. Blake not only addresses the reader, but additionally establishes the entire tragic past of our protagonist within just the first two lines. The chimney sweep is simply a victim of his circumstance; the narrator states that “my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry ‘ 'weep! 'weep!…

government maintain control through the use of psychological manipulation and physical control whilst Blake’s society relies on impossible promises of a Utopias after a life of misery. Blake’s religious apocalypse involves a progression from ‘Chimney Sweep’ in songs of innocence and of experience and an acceptance of the two contrary states if the human soul. An antithesis between death and life, coldness and warmth, darkness and light. Blake attacks the religious authorities in the line “If…

sin through being unacquainted with evil,” “lack of knowledge,” and “lack of worldly experience or sophistication” (“Innocence”). These three definitions apply to the persona of William Blake’s poem “The Chimney Sweeper,” which was featured in his poem collection Songs of Innocence. The chimney sweeper is guiltless, both legally and religiously, because of his young age that makes him “unacquainted with evil;” therefore, cannot be hold responsible for his actions. As for the second definition,…

Imagine working an 18-hour shift six days a week. To most adults today, that would be unbearable, but for many child laborers in Victorian England, such labor was the reality. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens portrays many cruelties imposed on children in the Victorian Era that reflected reality. Dickens’s portrayal of children in the Victorian Era was not at all dramatized and depicted what many child laborers faced in the Victorian Era. The creation of factories in Britain had many…

The first metaphor, the chimney-sweep’s cry, shows that the church is involved in the unhappiness of people. Chimney-sweepers are often black due to the cleaning of chimney soot. The “black” used in line 10 to describe the church implies the failure of the church to fulfill its duty, which is to give help to the needy, which includes the chimney-sweeps. Similar to the church’s treatment to the chimney-sweeps, the palace, depicting the government and officials, is not…

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The Industrial Revolution started after the Agricultural Revolution had been completed. This advancement in farming now required less people to work the land. Therefore, there were more young people available to marry, which led to a population boom. In the mid -1700s the population in Britain was 5.7 million, by the end of the century the population increased to 8.7 million. As a result, there was abundant of raw resources and this was the children from the couples that married younger and…

in favor of the other. In reading any of his poems, one has to be aware of the mental “state” of the speaker of the poems. In some cases the speakers address the same issue, but from entirely different perspectives. For example, the child of “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Innocence lives in…

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Religion is a belief that certain supernatural principles control human behaviors in the world. It is important throughout history because it had a great influence on everything from government to social order. In both the chimney sweeper and incidents in the life of a slave girl, the religion plays a significant role in both positive and negative ways. There are oppressors who use the teaching of religion to against powerless, while people who are oppressed use the same religion to help…