William Blake Research Paper

In both chimney sweepers we can see how William Blake explains the virtues and limitations of innocence and experience. The fate of Chimney Sweepers was a cruel one. Little boys as young as six were often sold by families who could not afford to feed them and apprenticed to the trade. They were sent to terrified up the dangerous and dark chimney and, they dared refuse, they were frequently terrorized by their new masters, who I think would threatened them to the life of poverty and starvation from whence they had come.

Sweeps would most likely suffered from cancer from exposure to soot, along with respiratory diseases, broken bones and stunted growth. Sweeps usually chose the chimney over starvation but whatever choice they made, their lives were haunted by a fear of death. Many critics said that “Chimney Sweepers was inspired by agitation which was then trying to pass laws against the use of children as chimney sweepers” (Damon 269). By comparing Blake’s two ‘Chimney Sweepers’ poems, we can get some of his

The conditions that the adult sees the child is naked dirty in the snow. Now this is the parents’ responsibilities for selling him to the masters of Chimney Sweepers. The kids wouldn’t had this problem of being outside naked and dirty in the snow if the parents would’ve stayed with their and tried to survive,

The fourth Limitation of Experience is that it has learn the lesson of hypocrisy. In the last line of the poem, Tom implies that church profits from the miserable life that he leads and therefore makes up a heaven of their misery “Who make up a heaven of our misery” (Blake 915). I believe that Blake’s implies that social problems are intimately connected with spiritual problems. Just as the child’s parents fail to perceive his misery, so they fail to perceive the lack of spiritual truth in the doctrines and practices of the