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A summary oh chimneysweeperessay by charls lamp

Answer 1

Summary :

Charles Lamb likes to meet a chimneysweeper but he is more interested in the young professionals than the grownup ones. These young sweeps are of such tender age that Lamb compares their professional calls at dawn - when their services are called upon-- to the 'peep,peep' notes of young sparrows at the break of day or to matin larks as they sing while ascending the sky as' sunrise approaches.

The blackened sweepers present a pathetic picture of their society. Lamb is sympathetic towards them and refers to them as dim specks, poor blots, innocent blackness or tender novices blooming through their first negritude while affirming that they were the products of their society. Though white, by birth, they looked like young Africans or clergy imps because of the soot from the chimneys, which engulfed their identity. They seemed to serve as a lesson of patience to humankind as they emerged from the top of a chimney with their cleaning cloth in the stinging cold of a December morning.

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Answer 2

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In "The Chimney Sweeper," the speaker relates that after his mother's death, he was sold by his father to be a chimney sweeper when he was so small he could scarely say the word sweep.  In the 18th century in England small boys, sometimes no more than four or five worked, climbing the narrow chimeny flues to clean them, collecting the soot into bags.  Having to breathe this soot and often becoming deformed from the narrow flues, the boys were subjected to terrible conditions and often were treated miserably by their masters.

Yet, in spite of these conditions, the speaker's attitude seems positive as he tells little Tom Dacre not to worry about his shorn hair because now the "soot cannot spoil [it]."  Tom becomes "quiet," perhaps repressing his worry.  He dreams of the other sweepers in black coffins.  Then, an "Angel who had a bright key" releases them into the clean beauty of Nature where he has "God for his father," and never suffer from unhappiness.

In the last line speaker says, "So if all do their duty they need not fear harm."  However, here the attitudes of the speaker and the poet greatly differ. This discrepancy is  termed dramatic irony; Blake comments on the deadly job of the boys.  The dream can be interpreted allegorically with the "coffins" being the flues since they were the cause of disease, deformity, and even death, which is the only escape from this horrible employment.  One only escapes "harm" by dying--when the Angel with the bright key releases him.

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