Blake's The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence)
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- Created on: 23-02-15 18:50
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- The Chimney Sweeper (I)
- Rich in powerful imagery illustrating terrible conditions
- 'cry', 'scarcely', 'weep', 'bare', 'soot', 'coffins'
- The Speaker and Tom Dacre
- 'Dacre' may derive from 'Dark' - sooty countenance
- Dacre's present state is only made bearable by the two edged hope of a happy afterlife following a quick death
- The speaker has the ability to find the silver lining in every cloud, highlighting the tragedy of the poem; he remains innocent in an awful environment
- Form
- 6 quatrains
- AABB rhyme scheme
- 2 rhyming couplets per quatrain
- Master of rhetoric
- Positive verbs - 'rise', 'sport'
- Rich in powerful imagery illustrating terrible conditions
- Dacre's present state is only made bearable by the two edged hope of a happy afterlife following a quick death
- The children may have been deluded by a false sense of duty misread by their own innocence
- The Speaker and Tom Dacre
- 'Dacre' may derive from 'Dark' - sooty countenance
- The speaker has the ability to find the silver lining in every cloud, highlighting the tragedy of the poem; he remains innocent in an awful environment
- The Speaker and Tom Dacre
- Rhythm and rhyme is incongruous with the subject matter and images described
- Form
- 6 quatrains
- AABB rhyme scheme
- 2 rhyming couplets per quatrain
- Master of rhetoric
- Form
- Stanza 4/5 depicts paradise only achievable following death
- The Chimney Sweeper (I)
- Rich in powerful imagery illustrating terrible conditions
- 'cry', 'scarcely', 'weep', 'bare', 'soot', 'coffins'
- Positive verbs - 'rise', 'sport'
- Rich in powerful imagery illustrating terrible conditions
- The Chimney Sweeper (I)
- 'Were all of them lock'd up in coffins of black' - represents the narrow chimneys children sometimes suffocated in
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