William Blake Research Paper

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In today’s world, children are often considered the most valuable and precious gifts to their parents since the first day they were born. Their presence on earth is God’s way of saying that life must go on, therefore, all children deserve to be love and nurture. Nowadays, feeding a child is simple, but teaching, shaping, and leading them into the correct, useful way of life is a much harder responsibility. During the 1800s, the period of Romanticism, where romantics poets illustrated their love of nature, their views of society and the surrounding into various form of arts such as poems and engraved begin to flourish. The name William Blake were often known as the Pre-Romantic poet in the beginning of the Romantic era, although his poems were …show more content…

His most distinguishable work is a series of poems that was written during the Industrial Revolution known as “The Chimney Sweeper”, with Songs of Innocence, written in 1789, followed by Songs of Experience, written in 1794 that go with it. When the Industrial Revolution started at the late 1700s and the beginning of 1800s, the rise of child labor also increased, many families have to send their kids out to work extra hours in order for the family to survive. At the same time, in England, the popularity of fireplaces and chimneys grew rapidly in the majority of the household. The fuel source of the chimneys was replace from wood to coal, which results in the higher need for cleaning more often in order to maintain the clean air. At this time, the need of workers to clean chimneys increased greatly, however, since the chimneys were constructed really tall, narrow but small in diameter, the grown-ups were not suitable for the job. Therefore, these industry often hired small orphanage young boys, from as young as the age of four to seven since they fit perfectly into the chimney, and they were called “chimney