Sunday, August 14, 2011
Can anyone anyalyze this poem 4 me plz?
William Blake was a British romantic writer. Being a romantic, he would have looked at nature as being the epitome of life. The boy, despite his young age, must work as a chimney sweeper, which was a filthy, dangerous job for the youth of the lower cl. Because of their low cl and poverty, they could not see why their son would find joy in life, especially amidst the cold, harsh world, felt there must be something wrong with the boy. They attempt to inform him of his lowly estate, and in so doing, basically break his joy. The last two lines is an irony between the parents' umption of destiny in poverty and their religion, which states that they should be happy in their lowly position. They think they have given their son a reality check, but they are actually succeeding in breaking his spirit, which is where true happiness comes from. This means that the parents' happiness is false and contrived, rather than real and based on natural joy in little things, such as the snow, which is truly God-given.
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