Tulips and Chimneys

The images of death and innocence in William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” poems “The Chimney Sweeper” is a title of two poems by William Blake, the first one was published in the collection of poems Songs of Innocence in 1789, the second one in Songs of Experience in 1794. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience contain several titles which are contrasting with each other and Blake presents innocence and experience of the poems of chimney sweepers as a perfect example of it. As both these…

with the hopes of a better tomorrow (Blake pp. 1-2). Unfortunately, the little boy is oblivious and unaware of the kind of injustices posed to him because of his innocence due to the young age. The Songs of Experience seems to echo the ordeal of the chimney sweeper…

“How do the selected poems present the idea of infancy or childhood?” - Infant Joy - Infant Sorrow - Prayer Before Birth* - One Upon a Time* - You’re - Piano* Childhood, is the part of life where humans remain innocent and pure, and are distant from corrupted society. ‘Infant joy’ by William Blake, and ‘You’re’ by Sylvia Plath all portray an optimistic view on infancy and childhood. Blake presents infancy in an affirmative tone, whereas Plath conveys positivity in a more obscure way resulting…

William Blake was a British poet and painter who lived during the French Revolution. The devastating end to it caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind. This explains why much of the poems in Songs of Experience are about bad experiences rather than good ones. The purpose of the poems in Songs of Innocence and Experience were to show the two opposing states of the human soul. These being that a child with no experiences are innocent and happy, but when they grow and gain new…

Innocence and The Songs of Experience aim to show the two “contrary states of the human soul” by presenting paired poems respectively focusing on the bright and dark sides of the world and human spirit. Among these poems, the two versions of “The Chimney Sweeper” explore the issue of child labor in the 18th century of England from children’s perspective. By comparing the two poems, readers will find that although the former belongs to the “happy songs” that “every child may joy to hear”…

"The Fireplace Sweeper" involves six quatrains, each after the AABB rhyme conspire, with two rhyming couplets for every quatrain. The main stanza presents the speaker, a young man who has been constrained by conditions into the unsafe control of stack sweeper. The second stanza presents Tom Dacre, a kindred stack clear who goes about as a thwart to the speaker. Tom is vexed about his present situation, so the speaker solaces him until the point that he nods off. The following three stanzas…

An Analysis of William Blake’s Life as a Poet William Blake was a travelled and experienced writer, growing up in Paris, moving to London, and finally ending up in Felpham, Sussex [1]. Throughout all this time William Blake, was a businessman, poet, and artist, all of these accomplishments severely impacted Blake’s literary works. In Blake’s poems, “The Tyger” and “The Lamb”, Blake uses repetition and rhyming throughout both of these works, but their meanings are extremely contrasting. “The…

the fireplaces and chimneys, resulting in these repeated cleanings. If chimneys did not remain clean from soot, the coal residue would cause the chimney to pollute the home with the fumes. Due to the narrow chimneys and the small space within these fireplaces, the job of the sweeping chimneys was left to young boys, who were usually orphans struggling to earn money. In a separate poem William Blake has written, titled “The Chimney Sweeper” (1789), he states “so your chimneys I sweep & in soot I…

E. E. Cummings lived from October 14,1894, to September 3, 1962. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was encouraged by his parents to develop his creative gifts. He first started writing poems at the young age of eight. Between then and age twenty two, Cummings wrote a poem a day, experimenting with many traditional forms of poetry. Cummings studied Latin and Greek at the Cambridge Latin High School, and then went to Harvard University. He first started writing modern poetry at Harvard…

works The Enormous Room and Tulips and Chimneys were all based on real life events, told through the eyes of Cummings. In his first book, The Enormous Room, Cummings tells his real life account of being imprisoned in France during the first world war. Although Cummings retells a very dark time in an internment camp, he shows a very unique and cheerful side of imprisonment. Later in his career, he published his first collection of poems which is entitled, Tulips and Chimneys. This collection of…