The chimney sweeper (songs of experience) Flashcards
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About
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- sweep no comfort in organized religion - too experience
- so covered in soot, barely recognisable
- society oppresses joyness of youth
2
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Summary
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- Small blakc shape in snow, seems to be crying out in sadness and pain.
- it is a child, parents have gone to pray in the church
- just because i ised to play in happy green fields, they punished me took away my happiness. Song of sadness
- Because of my dancing, they think theyve done no wrong. too busy at church prasiging god.
- God - poelpe who build fake heave out of pain of boiy like me
3
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Organised Reliogion and childhood theme
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- corrupting influence of religion on society
- Parents too occupied with churhc
- False hope from church
- church - take joy and turns into misey,
4
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‘heaven of out misery’
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- corrupt place built on labour
- mirrors upper class with lower class
5
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‘a little black thing’
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- distancing, dehumanizing
- boy made literally and metahorically unidentifable (no longer a child but object) (dispensable)
- consoncance (same consonant sound repeats) - gentilness, speaker is small and vulnerable, weak physically
6
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‘smil’d among the winter’s snow’
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- links childhood joy to nature and outdoors
- alliteration
- whitness of snow, purity, contrast to snoot.
7
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‘clothes of death’
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- childs black clothes, kill him
8
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‘and’
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- polysyndeton
- playful
- King james version of the bible - mocking
9
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‘gone to prasie God’
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- alliteration, link with societal neglent and religion
- people who praise god are gone from their responsibilities
10
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paradox
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- heaven and misery of chimney sweepers
- children die for upper class people to live well
11
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Form
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- simplicty, masking complex ideas
12
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meter
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- fairly loose,
13
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‘heath/death’
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- partial rhyme, not quite right
14
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setting
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- winter day, snowing, appearance stand out.
