![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though the word ‘heaven’ is commonly associated with positive connotations, in this case it is associated with misery. In these stanzas, the speaker argues that the idea that God, his Priest, and the King, make people free as well as happy is an illusion. The second poem, on the other hand, shows a completely opposite perspective, “They think they have done me no injury, / And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King, / Who make up a heaven of our misery” (10-12). These lines show the argument that people are truly happy and free only when they die because God is the one who can free them. In the first poem, the following stanza describes the speaker’s praise of religion, “and he opened the coffins & set them all free / Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run”(15). The first difference between the two “Chimney Sweeper” poems is that in the first poem, the speaker praises God and religious beliefs, thinking that they bring happiness, meanwhile in the second poem, he denies religion and any authority that supports it. What differences do you see between the two “Chimney Sweeper” poems? ![]()
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