night and day And he never turns his face away.” William Blake I am perplexed by the lines as if it has some magnetic gusto to realize belief and his spiritual world. We can easily figure out William Blake ’s artistic accomplishment in scrutiny of the spiritual world of human experience which is also the cardinal theme as well as motive of all his art. Blake ’s spotlighted verse is dominated with social concerns fixating on the historic and psychic origins
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Songs of Experience that does not have a corresponding in his Songs of Innocence. A literal interpretation of the poem depicts the speaker’s perspective of London as a highly corrupted city. Through his use of juxtaposition‚ diction‚ and repetition‚ Blake establishes a social commentary on London in the 1790’s. Thus‚ the conflict of the poem revolves around the political and religious institutions present in London and the citizens confined by them. The poem is largely written in iambic tetrameter
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towards different concerns in their writing‚ but not come directly out and state their concerns. Three great examples of authors like this include: William Blake‚ Robert Burns‚ and Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Each of these authors had unique concerns that they were able to get across in their own way. Blake wrote two poems with entitled "Chimney Sweeper." One version was found in his Songs of Innocence’ and the other was found in Songs of Experience.’ Although the first was told with a child almost in
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because of the plot it has. It has a very odd mood to it‚ and it was a boring‚ unusual poem to me. Unlike “Lonely Hearts”‚ I actually liked “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake. This poem is very emotional‚ and it really made me realize how good of a home life I really have. Blake informs in his poem about young boys who spend their life sweeping chimneys‚ getting filthy from the soot‚ and not being able to experience a real childhood. It also made me appreciate how kids get treated in today’s time
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tiny holes that an adult male couldn’t fit into to mine. The chimney sweeps of Europe is also another prime example of children being abused. Their job was to clean chimneys from the inside out. In his poem‚ “The Chimney Sweeper”‚ William Blake wrote‚ “And by came an Angel who had a bright key‚ And he open’d the coffins and set them all free. Then down a green plain leaping laughing they run and wash in a river and shine in the Sun” (Blake). All day long the children were in very small confined spaces
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the tree Rhyme scheme‚ metaphor‚ symbolism In this poem there are William Blake has used three different literary terms. One of them is a rhyme scheme‚ which is used in almost all of William Blake’s poems. The rhyme scheme of this poem is AA BB and continues this way in the other stanzas of them poem as well. In the second stanza he says “I watered it in fears … and I sunned it with smiles”; here William Blake is using a metaphor to compare his anger to a plant or tree. He describes how he
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Although both Blake and Wordsworth are romantic poets‚ their subject matters and style of poetry differ greatly. Blake is often critical‚ ironic and symbolic about matters such as city life and politics‚ whereas Wordsworth is explicit and very descriptive - frequently using figurative devices in his works. Blake ’s use of language is stark and bleak‚ while Wordsworth ’s is rich and involves senses. Blake ’s themes are also more to do with society‚ but Wordsworth ’s are based around nature and spiritual
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throughout the first and last word. “How the chimney-sweeper’s cry/Every black’ning church appalls”(Blake 9-10). With this line you can just see chimney sweepers crying with all the soot in there eyes‚ causing those tears to come. Why would a church be blackening? Blackening can mean getting dirty‚ but I do not think that the speaker uses the word blackening in that sense. I believe to mean that the church does not want to get dirty hands from the chimney sweeper’s problems. In the case of the blackening
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at that time. Combing with the background‚ these slants of light can be the traditional ideas on women such as women should cook at home and tend to their husbands or fathers all day. Things are different in William Blake’s “London”. In “London”‚ Blake
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Helpless In “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison and “From Songs of Experience: The Chimney-Sweeper” by William Blake‚ the main characters are highly disadvantaged children. Morrison’s characters are experiencing the effects of the great depression‚ while Blake’s speaker is a victim of child labour during the industrial revolution in London. Blake’s speaker describes the child workers as experiencing “misery” (141). According to the Oxford English Dictionary‚ misery can be interpreted as “distress caused
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