“Devine Interventionâ€
Submitted by melimel on April 19, 2011
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“Devine Interventionâ€
The Chimney Sweeper comes from William Blake's Songs of Innocence. The speaker is a little boy who is sold into a trade of hard labor as a chimney sweeper. The child's belief in God helps him through his dreadful duties in order to one day be finally happy. The Author William Blake is trying to show how poorly the young child and other children are treated and sold into basic slavery. The poems’ true intention lies in exposing the capacity of the Christian religion to enforce the dangerous charges of cruelty and injustice, as the Angel (usually used as a symbol of divine guidance) is reinvented as an instigator of society’s murderous fiction. Indeed, this is reflected in...
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