... stage in their lives: 'leaping' and 'laughing' in the sunshine. In the Songs of Experience version, the narrator introduces the boy chimney sweep as no more than a 'little black thing'. The child is so young that he cannot even pronounce the traditional cry of 'sweep, sweep' which the chimney sweeps of Blake's time called out to advertise their presence as they walked through the streets ... sweeps had failed to make any difference by the time Blake published Songs of Experience in 1794.) Another example of the binary oppositions within the collection of poems can be found in the two Nu...

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