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A Comparative Study on Blake’s two Chimney Sweeper Poems
June 12, 2019 by Somnath Sarkar
A Comparative Study on Blake’s two “Chimney Sweeper Poems”
Blake’s Chimney Sweeper Poems
The poem “The Chimney Sweeper” is set against the dark background of child labour, a crude horror of the Industrial Revolution that was well known in England in the late 18th century. The poems (Chimney Sweeper in Innocence and Experience) are meant to convey two different views of human life, the view of innocence and the view of experience. Here we see the naturalistic world of childhood against the world of corruption. Blake writes these poems to let the reader knows that many kid’s lives are being exploited in the cities of England. He expresses his disgust about the plight of the majority of the chimney sweepers and how the society and church turn a blind eye of their sufferings. In the society they live in, innocent children are in anguish because of the harsh treatment of the adult population