... more stark reality. The first poem ends with a didactic statement that "If all do their duty, they need not fear harm." Blake uses this final line as guidance whereas the second poem ends with the "misery" that is the true picture of the young chimney sweeps life. In the second poem Blake points ... St Paul's. The first "Holy Thursday" poem creates a beautiful vision of London's blessed children parading to church. Blake achieves these images and this emotion with the line: "The children walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green." A peaceful scene and an idealized image of what soc...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... must first know about how Blake's mind worked. Forgotten by his contemporaries but venerated by modern society, British poet, prophet, publisher, and artist William Blake was the earliest of a long line of reformist romantic poets. Regarded widely as a mad man, Blake was above all else a rebel whose anti-authoritarian spirit, and belief in freedom and individuality formed the basis of his ... heaven. The image of this child "who cried when his head, that curled like a lamb's back, was shaved" gives the impression of the sacrificial lamb, sacrificed into a life of hardship, poverty, and ...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School