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Discuss how Blake uses language and imagery in chimney sweeper poems to communicate his message. In the late 18th century, children from as young as 3 years old were sold by their parents or kidnapped by business men to be made to work as chimney sweepers; these children were forcefully, against their own will, made to climb up peoples chimneys to clean them; having no guarantee that they would ever come back out of a chimney alive. Child labour in the 18th century was made legitimate and was ignored by authority to be seen as immoral. The late 18th century society was very hypocritical and according to William Blake, religion was the main reason that established the hypocrisy of society. William Blake was a late 18th /early 19th century poet that was obsessed with religion he challenged the laws of authority and stood up to the hypocrisy of...

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