![]() Mercy, pity, love, and peace are excellent ideals, but they are nothing without human beings to perform them. "The Divine Image"īlake takes time in Songs of Innocence to explore the nature of virtue. ![]() Blake intended that this romanticized profession be understood for what it was, the selfish exploitation of children for the good of the urban machine.Īnd Peace, the human dress. The dangers involved, not to mention the squalid living conditions and the potential for life-shortening respiratory diseases, offended Blake to such an extent that he dedicated two separate poems to explaining the children's plight. This introductory stanza to "The Chimney Sweeper" alludes to a practice Blake found abhorrent: the use of small children to clean chimneys throughout London. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. The lamb's tender and meek qualities are offered as evidence of these same qualities in God.Īnd my father sold me while yet my tongue, ![]() ![]() Jesus Christ) created not only the lamb, but also the speaker of the poem and all good things in the world. Blake's rhetorical question to the lamb leads him to answer that he who is called by the name of the lamb (the Lamb of God, i.e. ![]()
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