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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
3 poems.
In The Chimney Sweeper the narrator was sold after his mother died and now he cleans chimneys. His friend Tom is a chimney cleaner as well and one night he had a dream. I think Tom's dream gave him something to believe in. He's in a bad situation and if he's good god will reward him in the end. The only way that can happen is after death. In Mother to Son I got a similar message, the mother's life has not been the best but throughout it all she never gave up. She is still pushing forward. Her son is probably in the same situation and she wants him to use her life as an example for not giving up. In For My Daughter the message is a little different. In the beginning the narrator is talking about his daughter. Maybe she is sick and dying and he's watching her as he talks about her. He feels there is nothing he can do to help her. In the end the narrator reveals he has no daughter. The message is the narrator don't want children because his child will died. Maybe she will suffer a very painful death.
Yes, the reward will come for the children in Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" poem after they die. What do you think Blake was trying to communicate to the readers? Why did he choose to have a child speaker in the poem? So, just like the children are told not to give up in Blake's poem, the mother in Hughes'"Mother to Son" tells her son not to give up. Yet who tells the children in Blake's poem not to give up? And how is the message different becomes it comes from a different source? Yes, the last lines of Kees' poem are ambiguous as can be read as either the speaker has no daughter or wish to never have had a daughter. Which line or lines illustrate the daughter is sick?
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