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Report on William Blake's The Chimney Sweeper

William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" was mainly about the possibilities of both hope and faith. Although the poem's connotation is that of a very dark and depressed nature, the religious imagery Blake uses indicates that the sweeps will have a brighter future in eternity.
In lines 4 – 8 when Blake writes, "There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved: so I said ‘Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.' These lines symbolize faith in the biblical sense. Young Tom's is like that of the sacrificial lamb of God and when the narrator tells Tom to stop crying because he knows that the soot can not longer spoil his white hair he, is saying to Tom, once he makes this sacrifice nothing else can hurt him. Blake is saying that if the children make the sacrifice of living out their lives here on Earth, no matter how dark......

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