These issues might include questions of period, genre, national tradition, the nature of childhood, education, history, gender, literary form, text and illustration, and so on (see Class Description). ... Extending this idea of nature and the Romantic childhood, Blake employs another technique common in Romantic writing, where nature is personified and used to reflect human feeling through the use of pathetic fallacy. ... Rather than only portraying this conventional Romantic view of childhood in his writing, Blake describes a completely opposite childhood experience in "The Chimney Swee...

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