Show how Blake creates opposing attitudes and ideas in his songs of Ess

Show how Blake creates opposing attitudes and ideas in his songs of Innocence and Experience.Show how Blake creates opposing attitudes and ideas in his songs ofInnocence and Experience.David Jessup 11A1Blake creates opposing attitudes and ideas by victimization contrasting,emotive language and also by using characters with opposing opinionsand attitudes.In The lamp chimney Sweeper Blake uses characters with differentsituations and lifestyles to show how distraught the chimney sweepscan be when they argon sent a look from their families to work at a veryyoung age.In The chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence the young boy is set forth as an angel and also as a lamb, both often used assymbols of innocence and purity. Blake uses symbols of innocence as analternative way of describing the children as innocent.He used various similes and metaphors in the Innocence poems to makethe poems more light hearted and to also convey a sarcastic tonebecause of the manifestly false descriptions.Al l of them in coffins of blackan angelopened the coffins and setthem all free, the coffins of black suggest that by fulfilling theirtasks as chimney sweeps the children are going to their eventual deathfrom suffocating or some other form of detath in the dark, smokychimneys.With language like this Blake managed to portray his beliefs withoutgoing against the perform or the State directly. This meant thatalthough he was criticised he could look at both sides of the lives ofchildren without being accused of being single minded or patronising.In The Chimney Sweeper from Innocence the narrator is the chimneysweep himself this is an effective method because Blake can then usethe childs... ...he year that orphan childrenare dispositiond through the streets in bright colours as soldiers. Blakeuses this viewpoint so that a neutral opinion can be gained of both asinister viewpoint of the parade and a gratuitous viewpoint.With wands as white as snow, show the beadles as pure and leadingthe children in a good cause but in Experience the beadles are shownin a different manner.Fed with a cold and usurous hand? showing the beadles cruelty andcontent to be selfish and dispense the children as objects not humanbeings.The poem I like best of all six is The chimney Sweeper fromExperience because it takes the misuse of chilren in a bad situationand describes it in an even darker manner.They clothed me in the clothes of death, the childs knowledge isinvaluable that he knows of his inevitable detah even though he isonly a young child.