The amazing aspect of art is that it has the ability to record history, especially the difficulty or strong emotion of it. The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake, written in 1789 and again in 1794, provides a reflection of a time of harsh, child labor. Written five years apart, the two poems have similarities and differences that are observable through techniques Blake uses such as, imagery, diction, tone, mood, theme, rhyme, size, and point of view.
Now, the similarities shall be discussed. Firstly, the use of imagery in both versions display pictures of darkness, nature, brightness, and happiness. For example, the 1789 version states in line 8, “You know the soot cannot spoil your white hair,” which is parallel to line 1 of the 1794 version, “A little black thing among the snow.” Both give an image of black contrasting white: white hair and soot; soot and snow. Likewise, the 1789 version says, “Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing, they run,” (Line 15), and the 1794 version says “And smil’d among the winter’s snow,” (Line 9). The two lines share the picture of happiness, more specifically, happiness in nature. Secondly, the use of diction, tone, and mood of the poems are similar because they are simplistic, depressing, lonesome, and sometimes cheerful. This is evident in the 1789 poem through words like: died, spoil, night, black, free, white, good, joy, dark, and harm, and in the 1794 poem through words like: black, gone, happy, snow, death, woe, and misery. As you
The theme of the two poems are very different and similar. The main idea of “Those Winter Sundays” is that not everyone express their
The Chimney Sweepers was published in 1789 and 1794. William Blake was the author of both poems that are named the same thing but are honestly completely different.
The common theme they share is if something needs to be done you have to go and achieve it. In the poem it says “The people I love the best jump into work head first, without dallying in the shallows.” In the poem the last sentence says that the kids are walking through the snow and no person or thing is going to stop them from getting to school. It also states that he has to shovel snow he said “ he could leave it undisturbed” but he said he has obligations and the kids walk down his street to get to the school, he had to get it done so the kids could walk to school. There was another snowfall after he had just got done shoveling snow the first time and he knew that he had to shovel it again so he went outside and shoveled it again. The poem
The boar lives in water and on land, and late dwells at the boundary of universe and non universe
William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" contains a character, Sarty, whose individual maturity ultimately initiates a more positive lifestyle than what is provided by his family. Sarty faces much drama throughout the entire short story which builds his personal maturity and allows him to truly evaluate the negative and positive aspects of his life. The dramatic conflict is between Sarty and his father, Abner Snopes, an older man who can be characterized as a 19th century terrorist who has a keen predilection for burning barns.
Two stories with the same storyline, but a different outcome in both. They portray their timelines perfectly; the two stories are William Blake’s “A Chimney Sweeper” and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”. The two come from similar backgrounds of hard times, but have different outlooks on their situations. One story coming from the time of separation and inequality while the other coming from a time where kids grew up quickly and lived in a dangerous time. One hid their emotions while the other had a dream and rethought their whole situation and realized that life was not that bad at all.
The two poems “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Acquainted with the Night” written by Robert Frost are very similar to each other because of the simplistic form of language used and the uses of metaphors. When we first read the poem, it looks like an ordinary poem but once we go in depth and understand the meaning, it becomes so much more. Both of the poem has a very dark, gloomy and lonely setting with a really mysterious tone. There are different metaphors used in each poem to symbolize death; “Sleep” in “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Night” in “Acquainted with the Night.” The characters in the two poem are both in a journey and has come
There are several likenesses and differences in these poems. They each have their own meaning; each represent a separate thing and each tell a different story. However, they are all indicative of Frost’s love of the outdoors, his true enjoyment of nature and his wistfulness at growing old. He seems to look back at youth with a sad longing.
Aside from the connections and similarities both of these poems are actually quite different. In Cummings’ poem the time cycle such as, “spring summer autumn winter” (3). Has the effect that time goes by quickly and the little things almost are insignificant. Also in Cummings’ poem he had mentioned how children grew to forget, allowing for such interpretations like, once one grows up they loose who they once were. Where in Frost’s poem time slows down to make a choice that will alter one’s life. When he is deciding between the roads he has time to ponder and question his move having each movement being significant rather than insignificant. Also in Frost’s poem it is safe to assume that when making a choice one will use the knowledge and experiences they had as a child to make choices in the future allowing the reader to understand that one doesn’t simply loose who they once were, but one changes who they become through the choices they make.
Blake’s two poems are both told from a child’s point of view, which is different from many works and forces adult readers to realize the fault in society’s standards through the bleak eyes of the many unfortunate children.
“The Chimney Sweeper” (128): This version of the Chimney Sweeper is very upfront and saddening. The version that is presented in the songs of innocence is much more of a calm town and is not as straightforward, while this version is very short and to the point. In this version its very deep as the narrator basically just calls out the parents/church for doing these horrible things to the children. I really love all three stanzas of this poem because they all have a really deep meaning and Blake transitions through them very well. Reading this poem over and over I don’t know what to make of it other than it is an absolute horrible situation. I think it can be tied in to
Both have a regular structure and stanzas that consist of four lines each. The first poem is a very short and brief one that needs analyzing to obtain the main idea and contains many hidden messages. The second one is a long and detailed poem that does not need analyzing to get the main idea. Both poems could be divided into two parts based on meaning. The first part in the first poem (in the first five lines) describes the speaker’s state of mind while the second part (from the sixth line to the end) describes his liberation from that state of mind by killing himself. The first part in the second poem (the first three stanzas) describes the speaker’s eternal love to his sweetheart while the second part (the last stanza) describes his farewell to her and his promised return. The rhyme of the first poem is ABAB. For example, “I” in the first line rhymes with “high” in the third line, and “old” in the second line rhymes with “gold” in the fourth line. The second poem’s rhyme scheme is ABCB in the first two stanzas. For example, “rose” in the first line has no word that rhymes with it in the third line, while “June” in the second line rhymes with “tune” in the fourth line. In the last two stanzas; however, the rhyme scheme changes to ABAB. For example, “dear” in the ninth line rhymes with “dear” in the eleventh line, and “sun” in the tenth line rhymes with “run” in the twelfth
William Blake's The Chimney Sweeper, written in 1789, tells the story of what happened to many young boys during this time period. Often, boys as young as four and five were sold for the soul purpose of cleaning chimneys because of their small size. These children were exploited and lived a meager existence that was socially acceptable at the time. Blake voices the evils of this acceptance through point of view, symbolism, and his startling irony.
“The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.”(Roosevelt). Memories are a phenomenon that brings both good and bad thoughts of the past back into one’s reality. This comes to show that an individual is a product of her past but is not a prisoner of it, due to it being her history and not her present. Margaret Atwood speaks in her poem, “Morning in the Burned House”, as a child who is reliving her past, although, that is perceived to her as her reality and she becomes a prisoner of that memory. This poem illustrates the message that the past is not one’s reality in that moment; it is history that tends to repeat itself in one’s mind. In this poem, Atwood expresses her thought and message through the specific imagery she uses of the five senses and the fire. Atwood uses the five senses imagery as a way to make one feel as if she is beside the child, reliving that memory with her. She uses the fire imagery as a way to set the tone for the poem, that perhaps something bigger and more life changing happened to the child. As well, Atwood uses the theme of illusion versus reality as a way to portray what is the child’s truth and what is a memory.
Both “The Chimney Sweepers” poems were written during the industrial revolution. During the industrial revolution families were living in poverty, and times were challenging. Often times for families to survive they would sell their children to master sweeps, or master sweeps would welcome orphans and homeless children into the industry of menial labour. They used children between the ages of five to ten depending on their size. Parents would often sell their children younger, because their small frames were more desirable. Even though “The Chimney Sweeper” (1789) and “The Chimney Sweeper” (1794) were written five years apart they show many similarities and differences.