The Chimney Sweeper (I) Flashcards
innocence or experience
innocence
how many chimney sweeper poems are there
2
this poem seems to be like
an experience poem
speaker
a child
how many quatrains
6
lots of __________ being used
sibilance
“‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep!”
- the cry that children would shout to show that they were chimney sweepers
- so young that they cant say it correctly
- shows the child’s misery
the tone is very
of matter of fact
“Darce”
a play on dark
“lamb”
Jesus
Blake didn’t like
poverty
Rousseau
man is born free and everywhere is in chains
“white hair”
old john
the echoing green
what is the question of innocence
are they innocent or ignorant?
“coffins of black”
the chimneys
what did tom do
go to heaven in his sleep
the heaven is displayed as an
utopia
the children are
exploited and venerable
“leaping”
A lamb
“wash in a river”
Jesus was baptised by his cousin john the Baptist in a river
“then naked and white”
ironic as the children would sometimes clean the chimneys naked
“he’d have god as his father”
if he is good then he will die
they are all Jesus
“never want joy”
never lack happiness
reality
a dystopia
rhyme scheme is broken by
half rhymes
the children are
happy to go back to work after the dream
the dream is so
the children wont complain
“duty”
if people had done their duty then there would be no need for chimney sweepers
