![]() ![]() ![]() Blake’s powerful imagery combined with a simple rhyme scheme conveys how childlike hope descends into a loss of innocence by the two chimney sweepers.Įven though the first “The Chimney Sweeper” is in Songs of Innocence, there is still a loss of innocence and a hint of experience. The boy was abandoned by his hypocritical parents to die as a chimney sweeper while they go to church to pray. The same cannot be said of “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Experience. ![]() Yet this boy still manages the type of optimism only a child can muster and comforts his friend Tom Dacre when his head is shaved.ĭespite the sadness of this poem a hint of hope still lingers. His father sold him as a chimney sweeper, making him little more than a slave. The narrator of “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Innocence lives a terrible life that could result in his death at any time. Two such poems that share the name “The Chimney Sweeper” both depict a young boy working the deadly job of a chimney sweeper but in startlingly different ways. William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience contain parallel poems that contrast innocence and experience. ![]()
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