English - Romantic Literature

Regardless the bright inflection the innocent poem , it still contains a dramatic irony in every statement , with blatant clearness of the misery experienced by the narrator

WHEN my mother died I was very young

And my father sold me while yet my tongue

Could scarcely cry 'Weep ! weep ! weep ! weep

So your chimneys I sweep , and in soot I sleep (Blake 24

Blake vividly exploits the imagery throughout Songs of Innocence

Then down the green plain , leaping , laughing they run

And wash in a river and shine in the sun (Blake

24

This is the depiction of what is waiting for the children-chimney-sweepers but only after death . When the sweeps are freed from their coffins ' - this expression symbolizes the restriction in the chimneys cleaned by the children like in their imprisonment . Another symbolic image of angel in the poem represents joy promising the children a good life but in this way also death will come .The two poems from different songs use similar repetition at the beginning . In Songs of innocence ' the child narrating the story tries to pronounce sweep ' but instead says weep

and my father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry

`weep ! `weep ! `weep (Blake 24

The image of the lamb recurs in Blake 's poetry . It serves as a metaphor for innocence and Jesus . Moreover , the whole poem is dedicated to the development of that metaphor which is of the same name The Lamb Again , the humanity and compassion of the poet is in evidence There 's little Tom Dacre , who cried when his head

That curled like a lamb 's back was shav 'd , so I said

Hush Tom never mind it , for when your head 's bare

You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair (Blake 24

The image...