Direct Juxtapositio

In “ The Chimney sweep” poem of Innocence, the author talked about the struggles he faced. He was young when his mother died , and was shortly sold by his father. He felt betrayed, but his mind was far away to even think about that. A lot of boys were sold at that time , they were badly treated, with never enough dish to dig or housing. The kids were put in danger of burning, cancer and other serious diseases that confirm an early

The first stanza of the poem offers us with descriptions of the temporal and spatial dimensions the boy was situated in through the use of figures of speech, namely metaphor and metonymy. “[S]ky began burning” is a metaphor for the bright explosions and burning debris viewed from above, perhaps as a result of the ongoing war. On the other hand, the house can be seen as a metonymy for the people inside it. By the comparing this “house” to the birds in the eaves, the boy speaks of the house as a shelter or refuge for the people affected by the war, just like how birds find protection in the lower border of a roof overhanging a wall. Also, the

William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” in his Songs of Innocence is a literary masterpiece that is still relevant and impactful in the modern world. In lovely form and description, Blake explains the atrocities and hardships of the Industrial Age in a poem suitable for school-age children and with the beautiful simplicity that only a writer like Blake could produce. The Songs of Innocence is a look into the purity and wonderful outlook on life that children usually have. While in its counterpart, the Songs of Experience, Blake uses adults as protagonist. The Songs of Experience is a look at the effects that hardships and failures have on adults, therefore having a pessimistic outlook toward life. In his these two works, Blake produces a parallel universe between childhood and adulthood where the optimism of dreams of childhood and the bitterness and stagnation of adulthood never seem to know one another.

Seamus Heaney and Thomas Hardy both depict images of rural life as difficult and uncomfortable. In their poems ‘At a Potato Digging’ and ‘A Sheep Fair’ they describe different aspects of rural life; these were elements of life that would have been familiar to the poets and ones that they would have experienced. In their poetry Heaney and Hardy

The narrator speaks of what could symbolise the lower or working class "the Chimney-sweeper", crying out against the system, and the upper class "Church" subduing them. Both the chimney and church are personified to symbolise the people they represent. This dominance is also related in the personification of "Soldier" and "Palace". The soldiers fight the wars that the monarchy decides, their blood on the King and Queen's hands. They sigh as to their shared plight, but their sighs only end in their deaths. This stanza's rhythm is different in that it follows a heptameter meter. Its pace is faster, which might reflect an increase in excitement by the narrator in what might be anger.

Correspondingly, the connotation throughout the poem reveals the cruel weather conditions as well as the vivid reactions of the child. “Dark”, “cold”, and “enormous moan” contribute to the idea of how abrupt the snowstorm was outside of the window. Wilbur brilliantly states that the young boy was looking through a “bright pane”. Pane can also be inferred as the literal “pain”

Throughout this poem he uses imagery, metaphors, symbolic meaning and other figurative language of his perspective as an adult going through childhood memory with his father. The setting in this poem is based on a memory in an autumn day outside the porch with his father while he speaks to his young child who can barely understand the meanings and expressions he has as an adult. The title of the poem gives a theme named after a character or event in the event which also proves a symbolized image of a traditional insight or achievement of wisdom. However, it is told that this may or may not be an actual event, but an idea of fatherhood or point reasons being expressed or an emotional or spiritual exhaustion in this short poem (Ruby and Milne

The poems use repetition of “‘weep, ‘weep” which is supposed to stand for sweep. These sound alike words make one think they should weep for these children who are working as chimney sweeps. In the 1789 poem, in line 14 which says “And he open’d the coffins & set them all free” it may use multiple meaning. This may be a symbol and technique to show how they would finally be free and purified. This may allude to the event of Christ’s resurrection and could show how they were to be set free.

The poet shifts focus from the lovestruck and the waitress and onto the population as a whole. While on a bus, an old man is singing to a child. His voice is personified as a “small boy / turning somersaults” (20-21). This leads the readers to believe he is reminiscing about his childhood, particularly doing somersaults in his native land, the “green / country of his blood” (22). He is awakened from his dreamy inner world and is transported into a “puzzle / of brick and tiny hedges” (24-25), which symbolizes the bleak reality.

The poem "The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake is all about exploitation, oppression, and abuse of young naive boys. The sweeps are innocent victims of the cruelest exploitation. Their lives are restricted. The imagery the speaker uses show the awful conditions in which the children were working in. The first stanza, the speaker in the poem introduces himself by saying that he lost his mother and his father sold him in a very young age. "And my father sold me while yet my tongue/ Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!" (3-4). The word "weep" can be interpreted in different ways. It can be used as an abbreviation for "sweep", or more deeply as a cry for

How would we do a poetry explication on “The Chimney Sweeper” (from songs of experience) by William Blake? We would start by analyzing “The Chimney Sweeper” and breaking it down into our own meaning or interpretation. In “The Chimney Sweeper” there are two speakers the child who is found in the snow and the person that finds him.

     William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” was mainly about the possibilities of both hope and faith. Although the poem’s connotation is that of a very dark and depressed nature, the religious imagery Blake uses indicates that the sweeps will have a brighter future in eternity.

William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Innocence opens in a dramatic monologue spoken by a young chimney sweep barely able to enunciate the word ‘sweep’ the child cries out “’weep! ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep!’. The simplistic language, use of rhyming couplets and direct, matter of fact account of the parliamentary report is Blake’s effort to awaken social consciousness. He implicates the reader in the exploitation: ‘So your chimneys I sweep’, ‘your’ implies the complicity of the nineteenth century reader. The poem’s central theme is the duality between the macabre reality and the promised liberty through death illustrated in Tom Dacre’s

The dream continues on by say that an “angel” came by and set them free, which means that all of the chimneysweepers were free from work and they did not have to put up with the terrible conditions of the job anymore. The other part of Toms dream included that boys going to “wash in the river and shine in the sun” meaning they could free them from the soot and actually see their clean skin not covered in black. This gave Tom a sense of what freedom would actually feel like and what life could be when he is done working as a chimneysweeper. Them being naked and white represent the cleanliness from the soot and symbolize their youth and purity so they can act now act and preform just how kids should. Also in line seventeen it mentions their bags being left behind, their “bags” represent their memories of chimney sweeping and how after they are free they are supposed to leave the bad memories in the past. Next it gradually mentions that “they rise upon clouds and sport in the wind” this symbolizes their second chance at life now that they are free to make their own decisions, it is as if they are given a second chance to be who they want to. After this Toms dream continues with the angel telling Tom that “if he’d be a good boy, He’d have God for his father & never want joy” this is dramatic irony because Tom never got the chance to prove that he was a good boy

In both of William Blake’s poems, “The Little Black Boy” and “The Chimney Sweeper,” an innocent-eye point of view portrays the stresses of society in an alternative way to an adult’s understanding. The innocent perspective redirects focus onto what society has become and how lacking each narrator is in the eyes of the predominant white culture. Each naïve speaker also creates an alternate scenario that presents a vision of what their skewed version of life should be like, showing how much their unfortunate youth alters their reality. From the viewpoint of children, Blake’s poems highlight the unhealthy thoughts or conditions in their lives and how unfortunate they were to be the wrong race or class level. These narrators were cheap laborers and were in no control of how society degraded them. Such usage of a child’s perspective offers important insight into the lives of these poor children and raises awareness for the horrible conditions children faced in the London labor force prior to any labor laws. The children of the time had no voice or platform on which to express their opinions on their conditions. Blake targets society’s lack of mindfulness towards the children using the innocent-eye point of view and illusions of what they dream for in life.