The speaker is describing his childhood. I says so because he says,"I was young",(Blake line 1) so what i also think is that his childhood was not good, he did not enjoy it.
In those years children had to work most of the time since parents did not have enough money to educate them.
The other kids who are part of the poem are his friends who also work to survive but working is not what they really want to do because they feel as they were prisoners.
They want someone who help them, "And by came an angel who had a bright key",( Blake line 9). So this angel is God. They trust him.
He and his friends got happy and continue working as usual but with the hope that one day everything will change for them.
The speaker wanted a childhood like the sight he had.
Remember that the poet is not the speaker. Which years? When was the poem written?Do not include the work line in your parenthetical citation: (Blake 1) rather than (Blake line 1).
ReplyDeleteWhat change does Tom's dream promise? When will the little chimney sweepers be with God, the father?