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Birth of Romanticism
(1775-1783)
American Patriots obtain independence from British crown
(1789-1799)
political and ideological revolution
(1760-1840)
change completely the economy and the social structure of Britain
The two phases of human life: Experience coexist with Innocence
-> "complementary opposites"
The Chimney Sweeper -> interest in marginalised
Blake talks about children's conditions -> sold by their families to work, they risk their life everyday, they see their friends die.
DESPITE THAT, they have the dream to be free. They don't lose hope, typical of the period of innocence.
London -> contrast between the powerful institution of the city, the establish (monarchy and the church) and the commercial monopoly of the industries, and the poor conditions of the working class
The Chimney sweeper -> The Chimney Sweeper against the adult world: his parents, and also God, his priests (religion) and
the King (institutions) -> guilty of unconsciousness of the agonising misery in which children lived
WHILE the Chimney Sweeper is here conscious and disillusioned about his conditions
object -> poet -> sensory experience -> emotion -> memory (recollection in tranquility) -> kindred emotion -> poem -> reader -> emotion
hyperbole -> sublime
personification -> loneliness VS company
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