Poetic Sound Question 1
The poem's main contrast is between:
Select one:
O The painful world of the children and the comfortable world of the
adults
O The world of human families and God's heavenly family
O The innocent, "playful" attitude of the chimney sweep and the
experienced, "holy" attitude of the parents
The white snow and the dark soot on the chimney sweep
"The Chimney Sweeper (1794)"
by William Blake
A little black thing among the snow,
Crying "weep! 'weep!" in notes of woe!
"Where are thy father and mother? say?"
"They are both gone up to the church to pray.
Because I was happy upon the heath,
And smil'd among the winter's snow,
They clothed me in the clothes of death,
And taught me to sing the notes of woe.
And because I am happy and dance and sing,
They think they have done me no injury,
And are gone to praise God and his Priest and King,
'Who make up a heaven of our misery."