A child's mind biologically is as complex as any adults. Each thinks in the same sequence, however the thoughts that pass through are the only variable. A child thinks of things that are simple, that they like, that they don't like. An adult makes simple things complex, analyze the things they like and don't like, and associate them with how they can live their lives. Children live for now, adults live for tomorrow. .
As children we see the world at face value. We absorb so much in, so simply and yet we do so much with it. William Blake had his first vision of God at the age of four. Before his fifth birthday, he'd also seen a tree full of angels in a field at Peck ham Rye. Throughout his relatively long life, the visions and communion he had with the angels, as a child never left him. They most likely in fact inspired his poetry and paintings as an adult. .
Blake's Songs of innocence are a key example of taking life at face value. The Chimney Sweeper looks at the world through the eyes of the innocent. Blake speaks of the chimney sweeper boys as being happy and hopefull, where as they were probably angry with their jobs and trying to move on in life as best as they could. Blake being a Romantic glorified innocence and childhood, as being one and the same. The Romantics idolized childhood. The voice of the chimneysweeper is very simple, sweet and child- like. The ideas are also very simple- - that the boy, Tom Dacre, could find help from his hard life, through dreams and hopes of a reward in heaven. .
The chimney-sweeper, who had been sold by his father was told that if he was a good boy, "he'd have God for his father, and never want joy." Children look to adults for guidance. Their limits are set within what their parents allow them. .
