LIVED DOMESTICITIES
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
"The Chimney Sweeper" - Kerry
I believe the poem starts off describing someone who has trouble sleeping due to the combustion of the chimney smoke then later leads into description of Tom Dacre's vivid dream. The ryhmes in the poem makes it far more easier to comprehend. The metaphors and similies still almost sound irrelevant, possibly because I dont understand them to my best abilities. Inside the book, they mentioned that a pun was in line 3, what is the pun?
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Can you point to the line where the "combustion of the chimney" occurs? In the first stanza the speaker says "When my mother died I was very young,/And my father sold me while yet my tongue/Could scarcely cry "weep!' weep!' weep!' weep!"(Blake 1-3). Is the speaker dreaming here? What in these three lines indicates this? A pun is a literary/poetic device just like a simile and metaphor. Look up the definition of a pun in the Glossary of Literary Terms in the back of the book, and see if you can see how it works in line 3. Also, if you have time, there is a two page excerpt of an essay, by Camille Paglia, analyzing this poem on pages 1466-1467.
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