Songs of Innocence and of Experience – AO5 Different Interpretations

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William Blake's Chimney Sweep Poems: A Close Reading

Shows how the poems highlight the injustice and brutality suffered by child chimney sweeps in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Open this article.

Explores two aspects of Marxist theory in relation to The Chimney Sweeper poem in Songs of Innocence. Emagazine, issue 52.

Considers how the two poems allow for a complex, subtle engagement with the figure of the sweep. Open this article.