Blake: Exercise

Exercise: Label as assertion, textual evidence, or analysis:

1.___________________In the first poem, a young speaker relates that his mother is dead and his father sold him to become a chimney sweep.
2.__________________He is very young because he can hardly speak as he cries out the chimney sweep‟s street cry, “weep! weep!weep! weep!”
3.___________________He comforts Tom Dacre that being a good boy will have positive consequences: “He'd have God for his father & never want joy.”
 4.___________________The second poem has a different speaker—not the young boy but someone asking him, “Where are thy father & mother?”
5.  ___________________ The rest of the poem is the young boy‟s reply as he tells the speaker about his difficult life, wearing his “clothes of death” and singing “the notes of woe.” 6.___________________ The poem's last quatrain explains that because the boy seems “happy,” his parents feel free to abandon him while they “praise God & his Priest & King.”