I have chosen the Poem The Chimney Sweeper because of how dark this poem is towards child labor and chimney sweeping. I had find the line He’d have God for his father & never want joy perplexing due to the fact that why would children want to be devoid of joy and instead have God as his father. I can understand that having God as a father may give you all the necessary knowledge you need, but why deprive a children not to want of joy? I feel like this passage is for chimney sweepers exclusively the children that are chimney sweepers for doing child labor and to be comparative of the colors black and white between soot and heaven between struggling to live and why they should keep doing their jobs. I think the overall theme of this passage is death and heaven. By connecting the metaphors soot and the dreams of a children of going to heaven I believe these are the two themes that connect the whole passage together.
This shows the child labor of chimney sweepings and its abusiveness nature of it. The image allows me to see more of the children’s pain and suffering through the soot on their face and abuse from their boss. The child was probably given away before he could formulate words.
