![]() ![]() The child tells the adult that he is on his own because his parents have gone to church to pray, and have left him to his fate because he seemed happy among the snow. If whiteness symbolises purity, the blackness of the soot-covered child stands in stark contrast to the surrounding snow. He is a ‘black thing’ (not even human, note: merely a ‘thing’) among the white snow. In this second ‘Chimney Sweeper’ poem, from Songs of Experience, an adult speaker encounters a young chimney sweeper abandoned in the snow. ‘And because I am happy and dance and sing,Īnd are gone to praise God and his priest and king, ‘They are both gone up to the church to pray. ‘Where are thy father and mother? Say!’ – ![]()
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