In first two verses of both the Innocence and the experience Chimney Sweeper poems, Blake employs basic colour imagery to contrast the 'little black thing' with the white of the snow, which represents the purity of the childhood that the sweep has had taken away from him. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Christina Rosetti seems towards the dark side of life." Choose three poems and consider how far they support this view of her work. A common interpretation of the work of the 19th century poetess, Christina Rosetti, is that her work is depressing, morbid and highly pessimistic. However, in thi...

• Word Count: 2526
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate