![]() The coffin in his dream acts as a symbol of the confinement they face in their lives as chimney sweeps. This moment of the poem enables readers to feel some of the pain that these young boys are going through. In his dream, him and other chimney sweeps are locked up in coffins and an angel comes along to set them free. Tom is a character in the poem who dreams of being set free from his life as a sweeper. The pain and sorrow on his face portray him as someone who is struggling with his life, similar to the speaker of the poem and little Tom Dacre. One way in which the poem and image work together is that the image directly portrays a young boy who is a chimney sweep. ![]() Within the poem, the boy explains his painful life of sweeping chimneys and sleeping in soot. ![]() The speaker of the poem is a young boy who was sold by his father to become a chimneysweeper after his mother passed away. After reading The Chimney Sweeper from William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”, I was able to note many similarities between the image presented below and the poem itself. ![]()
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