Symbolism means the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. ... Immediately the reader understands that the word "black" is used to symbolize death. ... The speaker is a little boy that realizes how difficult his life is. ... The young boy tells that his father sold him at a young age. ... Irony was captured when the little boy cried "Weep!...
When reading poem 1, I was left with the impression that the speaker was innocent, nave and a good-natured little boy. ... They would simply be replaced by another and possibly even younger boy. I believe that Blake uses the word lamb as a symbol of how these boys were sacrificed in their line of work. ... Blake is clever in his use of symbols and colour. ... Here the black coffins are a symbol of the chimneys, and being locked up in them suggests captivity - there was no way that they could escape their lives (until death). ...
The lamb also becomes a symbol of the deterministic delight of the divine. ... The lamb, thus, becomes a symbol of God and of the innocence of children as it is only in the children that God is most visible. ... Satan thus becomes a symbol of the repressed. ... An angel is releasing the soot-covered boys from their "coffins of black," and they are dancing away as they are released. The sky above them is blue, not black, and healthy, green vegetation, grows around the text. ...
