Question

What aspects of early romanticism do you find in the ‘chimney sweeper' poems ?

Answer 1

Imagination is the most vital characteristic of Romanticism coupled with intuition; imagination plays a dominant role in Blake’s poetry. The poetic creed of Blake is based on imagination. According to him, “mental things are alone real”. Blake is a visionary and imaginative poet. He wants to restore ‘the golden age’. Blake’s imaginative faculty is evinced in his concept of God explained in the poem the ‘Divine Image’.