how does lamb compare the chimney sweepers of london with clergyman
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The speaker narrates his tragic tale in the two poems ‘Chimney Sweeper’ as a poor and small boy who can hardly speak but is forced to sweep the chimneys.
Explanation:
- ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ is a pair of poems written by William Blake in his poem series ‘Songs of Innocence’ and ‘Songs of Experience’.
- Through these poems the poet portrays the sorry plight of the chimney sweepers.
- The chimney sweepers were very small boys between the ages of four and five who were sold off by their parents for chimney sweeping.
- In the two poems the speaker is a chimney sweeper himself. As soon as his mother died his father sold him off. The little boy could hardly speak distinctly yet he had to yell out ‘chimney sweep’.
- He narrates his tale of woe, of how he and the other chimney sweepers are exploited and ill-treated by their master.
- He heart-touchingly tells how one of the chimney sweepers dreams of paradise and a beautiful life after death.
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In the poem "the chimney sweeper", how do you know that the chimney sweeper was very young when he was 'sold'? what is meant by 'sold' here?
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