Chimney Essays

In the 1700’s there lived a very specific and dangerous line of work in Britain. These were chimney sweeps. Young children, mostly boys saw themselves sold by parents of guardians and taken as apprentices to these chimney sweep “masters”. In “The Chimney Sweeper” (Songs of innocence and Experience) we will explore the lives and Tone of such young men who had the displeasure of being such and apprentice. The first of the two is the “Songs of innocence” where we explore the living quarters and thought

conditions, the lifespan of Victorian Chimney sweeps rarely made it to middle age. William Blake wrote two poems in the 1700’s recounting the lives of the poor kids who worked as chimney sweepers. Even though being written along similar premises, the two poems differ drastically as well. Although both poems contain similar diction, a constant theme, and imagery the point of view and tone are remarkably different. The point of view of the first poem was of a young chimney sweeper, while the second was of

Chimney sweepers are known as bringing clean, and fresh air back to the home. Moreover, in literature, movie and artwork, child sweepers are portrayed as the cheerful young apprentices with older sweeps. But the truth is a huge difference in the history. Many orphans and children were forced into labors at an early age. In addition, these child labors were treated poorly while they were working for long hours as chimney boys. In his book The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience

In his poems Blake uses imagery and diction to contrast how children meet adversity with naive hope while adults meet adversity with delusion and denial. In the 1789 version of “Chimney Sweeper,” Blake describes the situation through the eyes of a child. He invokes sympathy from the reader by creating images of a poor young boy slaving away and sleeping in “soot” (Blake 4). To show how the boys are mistreated, Blake dehumanizes one boy by comparing him to an animal. The comparison of the boy to a

famous poems is known as “The Chimney Sweeper”. The theme of this poem is innocence. The kids have been robbed of their innocence. They get up before dawn and is forced to live a “black” life, covered in soot and facing a premature death. They can only play and frolic in their dreams. The poem itself describes the time that Blake lived in. The poem is a harsh justifiable critique of child labor. Children just as young as 4 years old were being trained to sweep chimneys and it could cause them to get

speakers of the “The Chimney Sweeper” poems are fairly ambiguous, but their levels of experience and innocence are quite apparent. Also, I think think that the age of the narrators (generally) are clear. For example, I think the poem’s narrator in “Songs of Innocence” is a child. From what I know, chimney sweeps were mostly small boys (they fit in the chimney easier), and the poem’s narration is a first person recollection of being a chimney sweep. For example: “So your chimneys I sweep and in soot

introduces the speaker in which invited us to follow a story of a child who has been forced after his mother died into the most dangerous occupation of chimney sweeper. He was barely able to speak or at least not able to pronounce the word “sweep”. Most of the little boys were sold out and forced to be a chimney sweepers. They were forced to clean the chimney from the soot that is why they die early because the inhaled unclean air and soot which caused them different killing diseases, such as tuberculosis

Conflict is a big theme and many poems and texts have been written on this topic, but two of the most well done and most expressive poems about this topics are “Out of the Blue” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade”. Even though the topic is the same the two authors, Simon Armitage and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, present the theme with different approaches, one about the innocent, one about the ones that chose to get involved In the conflict. The first poem, “Out of the blue”, is about the terrorist acts

In the 18th century, the treatment of children was despicably terrible and absolutely different from what it is today. Children were forced to sweep chimneys; they were not forced as slavers, they were forced as a convenience to the adults simply because they were small enough to where they could easily fit in the chimney and sweep it out. Due to this, the children life expectancy dropped tremendously because of the black soot they took into their lungs on a daily basis. William Blake, a poet, wrote

Why a Certified Chimney Sweep is Better A fireplace can provide your home with many hours of warmth, and you may have endless fond memories of relaxing in front of it on cold days and nights. However, basic upkeep is essential if you want to keep your abode and its inhabitants safe. As reported at ABC15 Arizona, if you don’t have your chimney cleaned on a regular basis, it could catch fire due to “soot buildup, debris, and even animal nests”. According to News Guardian, your household could also

he used in his time period. William used many different, yet similar themes throughout his poems. These two poems differ in many ways; however, they speak of the same conflict. “The Chimney Sweeper” speaks out about the cruelness of child labor. Both the poems highlight the boys’ feelings over working in the chimneys. Blake uses end rhyme in both poems, the only difference is that in the second poem, the pattern alternates between lines. For example, line five and seven correspond together thus the

pre-romantic American poets. He wrote “The Chimney Sweeper” forms Songs of Innocence and Song of Experience that reflects the cultural realities that describe the horrible living conditions of child labor and slavery described through a child in 18th century England (Khamis). In that time many children were taking to child salve and become homeless. Throughout the poem a reader will find out several things when father sold his young child. In “The Chimney Sweeper” William Blake used imagery, tone

In England in 1785, an orphaned 8-year-old Tom Appleby is sent to the isolated and terrifying Botany Bay, Australia, with the First Fleet. This sees him go through trials and hardship in the beginning of the European colonisation of this harsh land. This historical fiction is told in a third person omniscient limited narrative which allows readers to see into the heart and mind of Tom as he goes on an adventure of a lifetime. Tom Appleby is the protagonist; he is a courageous and intelligent young

showed the audience through his poems, that he believes in innocence and the body of God itself, and all of God’s creations. One of the few examples are, “The Lamb,” “The Tyger,” and “The Chimney Sweeper.” The poem, “The Chimney Sweeper,” was narrated by one of the children that worked as a chimney sweeper. In the beginning of the poem, the child gives us an introduction of his early life on how his mother died when he was younger, and that his father sold him. The name of the child

In his timeless poem, “The World Is Too Much With Us”, William Wordsworth bemoans the state of the world and how people so ignore creation. Wordsworth was an English poet in the in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His childhood was a traumatic time as he moved from one place to another after the tragic death of his mother. As he grew older, so did his passion for poetry and he soon published in a magazine when he was only seventeen. Despite stains on his character, including a

1. I feel that forgiveness is not for the other person, it’s a process that provides you the energy and the self-confidence to move on. One reason why is forgiveness is not for the other is because in my experience, forgiveness is a situation where serious harm has been done to you physically or mentally. The next steps are finding a way to relieve your conscious of the harm caused. For example, in the “Render Unto Larry’s” an op-ed piece written by Phil Holland, tells a memoir of his childhood

person who has little or no experience in a particular area/A person or thing influenced by a specified environment”. I found that William Blake’s poems from his Songs of Innocence and Experience Collection, especially, ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ (TCS) Songs of Innocence, ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ (TCS) Songs of Experience and ‘A Little Boy Lost’ (ALBL) Songs of Experience, explore this transition from innocence to experience in a unique way. According to Blake, “innocence is not sufficient on its own; it is

William Blake and William Wordsworth both present views of the obtaining, losing and regaining of innocence within their work. From Blake’s perspective, ‘Chimney Sweeper’ reflects the belief that it is possible to regain innocence once it has been lost, hence appearing in Songs on Innocence by taking away a child’s innocence through trials on this earth, returning it to him in death. Whereas, Songs of Experience the sweeper is aware of the idea that the church and king manipulate people causing him

The dangers and widespread injustice of the chimney sweeping profession caught William Blake’s attention, causing him to compose two similar works titled, ‘The Chimney Sweep.’ The first belonged to the book ‘Songs of Innocence’ published 1789 and the second, to ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ published in 1793. Both poems show the joys of childhood innocence as the main subject. It highlights how childhood innocence was destroyed, taken away or ruined by adults. Blake saw innocence as a joke

When one thinks of Chimney Sweeps, the first thing that often comes to mind is the romanticized version of them that the media holds today. Mainly due to Disney’s Mary Poppins, people think of young men who played in the soot and had a fun time goofing off and working cheerfully. Sadly, this is not the picture that history paints. Chimney Sweeps were young boys, often too young to even speak fully, who were forced to climb down chimneys - some of which would remain lit in the process, burning any