In five pages this essay analyzes William Blake's poems 'The Garden of Love,' 'The Tyger,' and 'The Chimney Sweep.' There are no other sources listed.
Name of Research Paper File: D0_khblpo.rtf
Unformatted Sample Text from the Research Paper:
conveys purity and the clarity of vision of the very young. His Songs of Experience, on the other hand, demonstrate a different perspective on life, one that is
hard and realistic. This difference is exemplified in two poems, in particular, both of which are entitled "The Chimney Sweeper," one published with the Songs of Innocence and the other
published with The Songs of Experience. Both of these poems dramatize the plight of the chimney sweep. In modern mythology, the chimney sweep has been pictured as a happy
adult (i.e. the chimney sweep scene in the Disney movie "Mary Poppins," where the sweeps dance on the rooftops); however, in reality, sweeps were small boys, usually under the age
of ten. Only children were small enough to go into the chimneys and do a proper job of cleaning them out. The life expectancy of these boys was not good.
Breathing in the soot from the dirty chimneys usually killed them rather quickly, a fact that is highlighted in Blakes poetry. The first chimney sweep poem is a Song
of Innocence. The narrative voice describes how is mother died when he was young, and his father sold him before he was old enough to cry, "weep!
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair has been
cut off. The narrative voice quiets his tears with the reassurance that, this way, soot wont spoil his hair. The next lines go on to describe how the boy dreams
of his thousands of co-workers who have already died. An "Angel" with a "bright key" unlocks their coffins and the boys are at last free to be children and run