... 's Songs of Innocence comprises "songs of happy cheer" about field and flower, hill and stream, and the innocence of child and lamb, as seen through the eyes of a child (World Book vol.2 pg 314). In one excerpt, "The Chimney Sweeper," Blake, through religious symbolism, gives the image of an innocence child living a life of hardship and grief that gains comfort from ... sacrificial lamb, sacrificed into a life of hardship, poverty, and early death. The child dreams of an "Angel who had a bright key and he opened the coffins and set them all free," an angel who carried the word of God and...

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• Grade Level: High School