How Can Forced Child Labor Be Portrayed As A Social Crime?

Robert Frost and William Blake both portray forced child labor as a social crime against the poor in two particular poems. In Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” published in 1916, he Identifies that child labor can sometimes have tragic negative effects. In William Blake’s poem “The Chimney Sweeper” published in 1789, he identifies that some children are stripped of happiness and out to work in situations that can cause health issues. Frost and Blake both portray forced child labor as a social crime against the poor to give the readers the idea that forced child labor is dangerous, unethical and should be abolished

First, Blake in his poem, “The Chimney Sweeper” portrays forced child labor as a social crime. In the text the audience understands the idea that chimney sweeping is a job ideal for small children however, there are several dangers and risks involved in the job. In the second stanza, third line Blake writes “"Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare, You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." He writes this to demonstrate that chimney sweeping children unwillingly had to shave their head so their hair would not get affected when they are covered in a carcinogen known as soot for long periods of time. In the following three

In his text, the audience learns that oftentimes children that are put to work are put in risk of enduring an accident that could result in death. In the beginning two lines of the poem, Frost writes “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood” In the two lines, the audience learns that the story is talking about a boy chopping wood to fuel the stove. The need for the wood is a necessity to provide the ability to cook and allow the people to survive. On the thirteenth line, frost writes “His sister stood beside him in her apron To tell them "Supper." At the word, the