Question

PLEASE HELP Think about the first eight lines and the tone of the rest of the poem. Based on the poem, how do you think William Blake felt about child labor in London during the Industrial Revolution? Use at least three pieces of evidence from the poem to support your response. Your answer should be three to four sentences long.

Answer 1

I think William Blake felt like he wanted to escape based on the poem. He wanted to leave the child labor industry because he couldn't take it anymore.

¨Could scarcely cry ¨Weep! weep! weep! weep!¨ So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

I believe he´s trying to say that he hates the conditions he´s in. Based on this line of the poem.

And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight!-- That thousands of sweepers, D, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.

I believe this is trying to say that the child laborers are punished by being locked up in coffins.

And by came an angel, who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins, and set them free;

The children were set free by an angel.

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I don´t know if im right but I tried I hope it helps!