The Chimney-Sweeper (Innocence)

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1. the angel told blake does not encourage passive 13. tom dacre, who cried simile implies he has curly hair. the
Tom if he'd be a acceptance of misery in life in order to when his head, that use of 'lamb' reinforces the innocent
good boy, He'd have joys in heaven. this shows a curled like a lamb's of the children and shows what has
have God for his submission to religion, however could back, was shaved been stripped away
father, and never also be interpreted as hope as it gets
14. tom was happy and believes he will have happiness
want joy them through the suffering
warm eventually if he does his duties
2. bright key hope and liberation - contrasts with their
15. you know that the something black/dark will not
daily life
soot cannot spoil your corrupt something pure/white. this
3. dark... woke... the last stanza no longer keeps the AABB white hair is a form of protection
warm... harm rhyming structure and instead is thrown
off. blake wants the reader to feel
unsettled and to reinforce the
unhappiness that the boys feel. a shock
after tom's vision
4. dick, joe, ned and generic names - emphasising how many
jack chimney sweepers there are suffering and
strips away their individuality
5. green plain green pastoral imagery that shows light,
leaping... wash in colour, pleaser and laughter. this
a river and shine juxtaposes with the city that is
in the sun monochrome, dark and where the
children are subject to the pressures of
city life
6. locked up in this represents where they work in the
coffins of black black chimneys and reinforces an
imagery of death
7. my father sold metonymy of 'tongue' that refers to
me while i yet my speaking while using a body part linked
tongue could
scarcely cry
8. rise upon clouds, 'rise' gives a sense of freedom from being
and sport in the trapped in the chimneys. 'clouds' are
wind white so this juxtaposes their everyday
environment of soot and is a glimpse of
freedom for tom dacre
9. rose in the dark repetition of rising. this time in real life
and shows how the dream has kept tom
and the others going
10. so if all do their blake's irony - children are harmed in all
duty, they need aspects as slaves
not fear harm
11. so your chimneys implications that the child is not aware of
I sweep and in their degradation
soot I sleep
12. their bags left metonymy - burden free of their chimney
behind sweeping equipment