I think William Blake is trying to place the setting of the poem where the character "Tom Dacre" has awoke inside a dream as it said in line 10, "As was a-sleeping, he had such a sight". that line made me understood that the poem would be about a dream. In his dream he saw "thousands of sweepers" including "Dick, Joe, Ned and Jack", Blake is also describing on how the sweeper tries to free the people by using a "bright key" that the "Angel" gave to him. The second to last stanza kind of confused me a bit because it said "if he'd be a good boy, He'd have God for his father, and never want joy". What is the author stating about this stanza?
Yes, Leon, the chimney sweeper by the name of Tom Dacre has a dream in Blake's poem, but the entire poem is not Tom's dream. Who is the speaker in this poem? The second to last stanza is part of Tom's dream, and in this stanza the Angel tells Tom "be a good boy" and you'll "had God for [your] father, and never want joy"(Blake 19-20). God is considered the father by those who worship him, especially in Christian faith. So what does Tom's dream mean? How does this poem relate to Kees' and Huges' poems?
ReplyDeleteNow it makes more sense. So the speaker is Tom and he's telling his own dream. Do all three poems have to do with perseverance???
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