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William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper,” written in 1789, tells the story of what happened to many young boys during this time period. Often, boys as young as four and five were sold for the soul purpose of cleaning chimneys because of their small size. These children were exploited and lived a meager existence that was socially acceptable at the time. Blake voices the evils of this acceptance through point of ....
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.... soot inhalation destroyed their lungs. In this quote sleeping in soot symbolizes dying in soot, or from the soot. Blake also symbolizes these boys’ fate with the lines “That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack/ Were all of them locked up in coffins of black” (554). In this quote the “coffins of black” symbolize the chimneys (554). Ultimately this all symbolizes the boys’ death because of their terrible l ....
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