The Presentation Of The Omniscient In William Blake's Poetry

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 and lungs cancer. William Blake uses the omniscient in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the poem. This first stanza has two imagery. On one hand, organic imagery in the first line, "When

This line is deviated the most in the poem and if one should look at this poem as looking at a painting; this is recognized as the foregrounding. ( Norton

Anthology, p. 1345) 4. Blake suddenly writes “So your chimneys I sweep” in order to make the reader feel responsible for the young chimney sweeper’s unhappiness.

(Paul Simpson) 5.

The following stanza the speaker introduces us a poor little boy named Tom Dacer, a fellow chimney sweep. This little kid was crying because of his hair was shaved entirely and the speaker tried to comfort him. He had curly light blond hair which

Blake uses simile to compare the boy 's curly hair to the lamb 's wool. Also, he uses simile such comparison to make an implication that the young kids are as innocent as much the lambs are and his hair are intended to seem angelic, too. The speaker comfort the little Tom until he falls asleep, by telling him that he should not to be upset about his hair. Because of his beautiful hair will ruin by the soot which makes his blonde hair to black and dirty. Which also, Blake make another