In William Blake’s poem The Chimney Sweeper from “Songs of Innocence” we read about the sad childhood of a boy who has just lost his mother, and is sold to be a chimney sweeper by his father. The image I chose below is of a happy chimney sweeper, I chose this image to portray the end of the poem. “And the Angel told Tom, if he’d be a good boy, He’d have God for his father & never want joy. And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark And got with our bags & our brushes to work. Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm;

So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.”  After all the suffering this boy went through he is eventually set free in the end by an ‘angel’. The day after being set free the angel comes back and tells the boy maybe the most important line in the poem, “If he’d be a good boy, He’d have god for his father and never want joy.” This line is very impactful and the next day we see how the boy and Tom get up to do work in the cold ( which is a very unpleasant thing) and it speaks about how they enjoy it. The image I have chose shows a man with pure joy on his face regardless of the fact that he seems to be a chimney sweeper. I imagine Tom and the boy after hearing that significant line from the angel to be just like this man with pure joy on his face while doing a choir that would be viewed as infuriating. The poem just like this image show how people who could be doing things that are viewed as a hassle and it shows them enjoying this. I think the image and poem are about finding happiness in the mundane and even annoying parts of life.