I feel that this image perfectly describes the resentful tone of “The Chimney Sweeper” from Blake’s Songs of Experience. When looking at the young chimney sweeps above, I see one emotion in their facial expressions, sorrow. 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. 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”. This is where the image above helps my understanding of the poem. The text shows sadness, but the image is better at conveying the full on sorrow and despair that author must feel. The text tells me that Blake wants revenge for what his parents have put him through, but the image says that a young chimney sweep would not have the energy to even think about exacting revenge on whoever forced them into work. Another difference between the text and the image is that the text calls the chimney sweep “A little black thing among the sun” in the opening line. Possibly, in the time from when the image is taken and the boys are clean, to when they are done with a days work and completely covered in soot, that they would garner such a resentment towards their parents that they would be motivated to stand up to them.