eys that the little boys have to shimmy through. Blake writes, And by came an Angel who had a bright key, / And he opend the coffins and set them all free; (13,14) Here the angel that comes to save the boys is the angle of death. The angel is setting them free because they are going to heaven.The angle tells Tom that if he does his work and is a good boy that, Hed have God for his father & never want joy. (20) This is important because the childrens fathers sold them into the chimney sweeping business. So to Tom, having God as a father is something wonderful and to go to heaven is equally appealing to him.Blake then goes on to write, So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. (24). This line is very ironic because that is what the little boys think, however, the children do not know that they will die young from an unpleasant death because of this job. By saying this, Blake illustrates how he sees the world through the eyes of a child. Blakes poem The Chimney Sweeper from Songs Of Experience, however, has a very different tone compared to The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence. In Songs of Experience The Chimney Sweeper has a narrator in it questioning the young chimneysweeper. He says, Where are thy father & mother? say?(3) The young child tells him that his parents have gone to church to pray. The child blames his parents as well as society for his present position in life and says:And because I am happy, & dance & sing,They think they have done me no injury,And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King,Who make up a heaven of our misery. (9,12)Unlike The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence, the young boy in this poem realizes that he is going to die and that this is wrong. He blames God, his parents and society for letting this happened to him. Blake is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child in this poem, however, he is looking at it from a more mature or experienced point of view. Many of Wi...
