FIRST PAPER

Subject: # 14217 Poesía Inglesa de los siglos XIX y XX Grupo A.

Student´s name: López Marqués, Marlén.

Title of the paper: William Blake: The Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.

Author or topic: William Blake (1757-1827)

Abstract:  This paper will talk about William’s Blake poem “The Chimney Sweeper” (from Songs of Innocence in 1789) and I will try to explain what are the main differences between this version and the later from Songs of Experience . The poems are both similar in subject with Blake using `The Chimney Sweep" in both to emphasise the miserable urban life of a chimney sweep during the industrial revolution. The two poems are also similar in which they are being told from a child's point of view display one important difference. In the `innocence' poem the child is unaware of the implications that the story he is telling beholds. In "experience" the child is a streetwise child of the slums creating a darker tone. In both `innocence' and `experience' we can see the contrast of each revealing the story of a chimney sweep.

Auto-evaluation: I consider I have worked enough for the preparation of my papers and I hope to get a 5.

Academic year 2007/2008
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Marlén López Marqués
marloma7@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press