This is where the image above helps my understanding of the poem. I say that the poem has a resentful tone, this analysis comes from the lines “And because I am happy, and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury”. These kids are not even that dirty yet, which means that From the line “Where are thy father and mother? Say? They are both gone up to the church to pray.”, I can deduce that for at least the author, either he feels that his parents put him in this miserable position as a chimney sweep, or that they actually did. When looking at the young chimney sweeps above, I see one emotion in their facial expressions, sorrow. I feel that this image perfectly describes the resentful tone of “The Chimney Sweeper” from Blake’s Songs of Experience.
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