As he goes in for a kiss he says: "About her neck; her cheek once more/ Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss" (47-48). ... Despite everything, he still shows his love and devotion by offering her a "burning kiss" symbolizing some false sense of eternal love. ...
Tom, an innocent child, shares his dreams of angels and the salvation of the sweeps: "And by came an angel who had a bright key, And he open'd the coffins & set them all free;" This sort of social consciousness in literature, stimulated by the French Revolution, also allows Blake to show in the second poem, through an experienced narrator, the true plight of child laborers: "Crying'weep! ... Words such as burning, fire, dread, hammer, furnace, and terrors is used by Blake in this poem so that any person reading that has a most basic concept of the biblical heaven and hell will recog...
