Chimney sweeps
Introduction
By differentiating the two poems of Blake’s, we get the sense that he has feelings of experience and innocence, which is a contrary state. In the sweep of the innocence is that he does not know the kind of life his in. What the author is trying to pass the words that sound in our ears are different, which therefore brings the difference to the child. But the innocent child’s sound is not satisfactory to make any meaning in the child’s sorrow. The child does not know if he has been taught a language, which is false. Therefore that innocence makes the child think that sadness is always a fact of daily life. That makes the child fail to comprehend the life that he has found himself. That, therefore, makes innocence to be a scary state when compared to the experience.
The chimney sweep of experience puts a child to know that everyday life is one of angry and misery that berates the society of the child. The difference between innocence and experience is that the child of experience knows that the life that he is undergoing is one that has been forced upon him. He recognizes that he has learned from experience the language of sorrowful sweep life. That, according to Blake, is that experience is a state of control and knowledge.
The anger from the child of experience is directed to the church religion. In the poem the last line, Blake argues that the church benefits from the miserable life that he conducts, and therefore it creates heaven of misery. That means that the churches are built upon the pain of innocence. It also argues that the church’s happiness, which claims that children like sweep, are pleased instead of suffering. The church sin, according to Blake, is that it prevents people from noticing things as they are by training them in the misconception of wisdom received. That means that the social problems are connected intimately with the problem spiritually. That is, such as the parent of the child fails to get the misery of the child, so they also fail to perceive the insufficient of the spiritual truth in the practice and doctrine of the church.
The contrary state of the human soul, according to Blake, means that experience and innocence are elements that are opposite in life, but they greatly influence a person. The innocence in the poem implies that the childhood of a person. That is all people when they were young; they were all innocent. As a child, we were all carefree, and we did not know some of the consequences of some of the things that we were doing. We did the actions without any questions asked. But as the years went by, we grew older, and that is when we went through the different experiences, and that is when we started learning from the situations that we were facing. Then we became more mature and innocence reduced. We started to differentiate the good from the wrong, the consequences of particular actions, and we became more open-minded in what we were doing and not to follow what people were telling us to do. Experience alters our view of life. Without the experience that we go through, we would not be able to know the world as a simplistic one and not know that the world is very complicated with the help of experience. We become better people being more responsible. Wise and more cautious, viewing the world in our eyes rather than others.