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William Blake Research Paper

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William Blake was a well known pre-romanticist poet. One of his most 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 cancer or suffocate because of it. For each division, the images from the poem convey this subject and theme.

In the divisions one and two, a young boy father sold him after

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