The following text is adapted from William Blake’s 1794 poem The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snowA little black thing among the snow:Crying weep, weep, in notes of woe!Where are thy father & mother? say?They are both gone up to the church to pray.And because I am happy, & dance and sing,They think they have done me no injury:And are gone to praise God & his Priest & KingWho make up a heaven of our misery.What is the main idea of the text? The speaker sees a poor orphaned child. eliminateThe speaker sees a child who is lost. eliminateThe speaker finds a child on the way to church. eliminatedThe speaker finds a child who is remarkably happy but alone. eliminate

The following text is adapted from William Blake’s 1794 poem The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snowA little black thing among the snow:Crying weep, weep, in notes of woe!Where are thy father & mother? say?They are both gone up to the church to pray.And because I am happy, & dance and sing,They think they have done me no injury:And are gone to praise God & his Priest & KingWho make up a heaven of our misery.What is the main idea of the text? The speaker sees a poor orphaned child. eliminateThe speaker sees a child who is lost. eliminateThe speaker finds a child on the way to church. eliminatedThe speaker finds a child who is remarkably happy but alone. eliminate

The following text is adapted from William Blake’s 1789 poem “Nurse’s Song." The poem is written in the voice of a nurse addressing children playing outside.When the voices of children are heard on the green,   And whisperings are in the dale,The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,   My face turns green and pale.Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,   And the dews of night arise;Your spring and your day are wasted in play,   And your winter and night in disguise.What is the main idea of the text?The nurse worries about the dangers children encounter while playing outside.eliminateThe nurse laments how time is wasted in youth while watching children play.eliminateThe nurse watches children play and thinks about her own child.eliminateThe nurse is comforted by the pastoral scene of children playing outside on the green.

Blake’s “Song of Innocence” resembles simple nearly rhymes though far morecomplicated. How? answer this question keeping chimney sweeper in the background please.

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WHAT TO DO:1.       Read the background to William Blake from The Norton Anthology of English Literature: the major Authors pp. 43-46. Write down a summary of the major discussion points regarding Blake’s background: life, education, art, poetic composition and publication, understanding of poetry and the role of imagination and his mythology. 2.       Read the background to William Wordsworth from The Norton Anthology of English Literature: the major Authors pp. 124-127. Write down a summary of the major discussion points regarding Blake’s background: life, education, art, poetic composition and publication, understanding of poetry. 3.        Read the background to William Blake and William Wordsworth from A Brief History of English Literature, Chapter 9 The Romantic Period pp. 151-159, and from The Norton Anthology of English Literature: the major Authors pp. 1205-1209. Write down a summary of the major discussion points regarding Blake’s and Wordworth’s reaction to the French Revolution, understanding of poetry and works 4.  Read from the poems “London” and “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by Blake and Wordsworth and answer the questions in “Analysing Verse”.