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"The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of a poem by William Blake, published in two parts in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794. The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house.There he appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby", [3] as he is told by a caddisfly – an insect that sheds its skin – and begins his moral education.
"The Praise Of Chimney-Sweepers" "A Complaint Of The Decay Of Beggars In The Metropolis" "A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig" "A Bachelor's Complaint Of the Behaviour Of Married People" "On Some Of The Old Actors" "On The Artificial Comedy Of The Last Century" "On The Acting Of Munden". And in Last Essays of Elia: "Blakesmoor in H---shire" "Poor ...
In some of the poems in this work, such as "The Chimney Sweeper" and "The Little Black Boy", Blake uses irony and rhetoric to portray the corruption of innocence in youth. Songs of Innocence were later combined with Blake's Songs of Experience, becoming Songs of Innocence and Experience and bringing the total number of poems in the work to ...
At first the Notebook belonged to Blake's favourite younger brother and pupil Robert who made a few pencil sketches and ink-and-wash drawings in it. After death of Robert in February 1787, Blake inherited the volume beginning it with the series of sketches for many emblematic designs on a theme of life of a man from his birth to death.
Nurse's Song is the name of two related poems by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794.. Nurse's Song. The poem in Songs of Innocence tells the tale of a nurse who, we are to assume, is looking over some children playing in a field.
Eeper Weeper" or "Heeper Peeper" is an English nursery rhyme and skipping song that tells the story of a chimney sweep who kills his second wife and hides her body up a chimney. The rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13497. [1]
"To Tirzah", in the Cambridge copy of the Songs of Experience "To Tirzah" is a poem by William Blake that was published in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience.