the chimney sweeper.ppt

The Chimney Sweeper --William Blake Introduction of the Poet William Blake?(28 November 1757?– 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered as a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Introduction of the Poet’s Work Although he lived in London his entire life,( except for three years spent in?Felpham), William Blake produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus of work, which embraced the imagination as to the body of God,?or Human existence itself. A painter of Masterpieces Three Fates The Book of Job – When the Morning stars sang Together …more of the same Loss Christ as the Redeemer of Man His masterpieces of poetry All Religions are One 《众教归一》 Songs of Innocence《纯真之歌》 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 《天堂与地狱联姻》 Milton a Poem 《弥尔顿诗歌》 Songs of Experience 《经验之歌》 The Chimney Sweeper The Chimney Sweeper is the title of two poems by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794. ！ The Chimney Sweeper --William Blake When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry weep! weep! weep ！ So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. Theres little Tom Dacre, who cried when his hair curled like a lambs back so I said,Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your heads bare, you know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair And so he was quiet; and that very night as Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight, - That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,were all of them locked up in the coffins of black And by came an angel who had a bright key, and he opened the coffins and set them all free. Then down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run, and wash in a river, and shine in the sun; Then naked and white, all their bags left behind. They rise upon clouds and sport in the wind; And the ange