Write down the theme of the following poem (Not more than 50 words).When my mother died I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongue,Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep, So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his headThat curled like a lambs back was shav’d, so I said.Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head’s bare,You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hairAnd so he was quiet & that very night.As Tom was sleeping, he had such a sightThat thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned & JackWere all of them lock’d up in coffins of black,And by came an Angel who had a bright keyAnd he open’d the coffins & set them all free.Then down a green plain leaping laughing they runAnd wash in a river and shine in the Sun.
The Chimney Sweeper : When my mother died I was very young by William Blake
Answer : The theme of the poem is criticism of child labour. Many children are born in poor families. The state, the church and the families force them to work in factories. There they clean chimneys. Their life is marked by sadness, abandonment and death.
