{"id":8888,"date":"2022-05-18T06:57:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T06:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highclasswriters.com\/blog\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2022-05-18T06:57:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T06:57:24","slug":"compare-the-two-poems-of-william-blake-the-chimney-sweeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highclasswriters.com\/blog\/compare-the-two-poems-of-william-blake-the-chimney-sweeper\/","title":{"rendered":"compare the two poems of William Blake \u201cThe Chimney Sweeper\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A close analysis focuses narrowly on a single text (or portion of a text) in order to reveal its structure and organization. A close analysis is not a summary: it should not \u201ctranslate\u201d the text into your words, but should make use of your words to explain it. A close analysis is not an argument: it should not \u201ctake issue\u201d with the text or attempt to support or refute it. The writer of a close analysis is more an observer than a commentator. Like a lab scientist, you are observing and describing a phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the structural features you should be looking for? Not every text will have all of these, and certainly not all in equal measure, but here are features you might expect to find:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Type of discourse: is the passage persuasive, argumentative, celebratory\u2026or what?<\/li><li>Unusual diction (words that catch your eye, that seem emphatic,<ul><li>humorous, ironic, and so on)<\/li><li>Imagery (words and phrases that appeal to the senses\u2014e.g. pertaining to light and dark, natural phenomena, supernatural phenomena, and so on)<\/li><li>Metaphor and other figures of speech<\/li><li>Speaker or persona (who is speaking? what are his or her motives?)<\/li><li>Syntactical devices (parallelism, antithesis, rhetorical questions, unusual sentence structure)<\/li><li>Mode of development (from earlier to later, from specific to general, from cause to effect)<\/li><li>Tone (for example: flat, detached, matter-of-fact, apologetic, anxious, excited, bombastic)<\/li><li>Point of view\/attitude: is the passage abstract or concrete, immediate or remembered, vivid or generalized?<\/li><\/ul>Obviously, every work of literature will exhibit such features in different combinations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>NO SECONDARY SOURCES REQUIREDTWO VERSIONS OF THE POEM<br>https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43654\/the-chimney-sweeper-when-my-mother-died-i-was-very-young<br>https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43653\/the-chimney-sweeper-a-little-black-thing-among-the-snow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close analysis focuses narrowly on a single text (or portion of a text) in order to reveal its structure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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