ENGL 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chimney Sweep
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Discussion: devices attitude towards garden of eden. Wanted to show the divide by the fall: compared to the divide of french revolution, not traditional christian belief. Myth-making: god is the unity of man. The fall is the individual act: the lamb. The apocalypse: the lamb and the tiger are more double question. Rather than answering: working class background, relief etching. The lamb has pastoral imagery: shepherd tone, land is cultivated, direct symbolism of childhood christ. The lamb painting is a group scene: the tiger is solo. Nows that god made bot the lamb and the tyger. In the rst poem there is comfort: innocent to the point of ignorance. Black is sin and white is grace: both chimney sweeper. Lamb is referred to the 1st chimney sweeper. Theme of su ering lets them be blessed later on. The notes of woe: real life is after death. False sense of happiness: people think that he is ne.
