William Blake presents two poems both titled The Chimney Sweep, but both have a different perspective. The first poem Blake wrote titled The Chimney Sweeper comes from Blake's book Songs of Innocence and comes from the perspective of an innocent and ignorant mind. The second poem entitled The Chimney Sweeper, was included in Blake's book Songs of Experience and has a mature perspective. Blake uses both versions of The Chimney Sweep to present his social critique of society. I believe that the Songs of Experience version of William Blake's The Chimney Sweep presents the social criticism better than the Songs of Innocence version of The Chimney Sweep because Songs of Experience articulates an explicit and direct criticism of child labor while the Songs of Innocence criticism is more implicit. Both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience provide social commentary on the dangers that child chimney sweeps endure, but Songs of Experience provides better social commentary as Songs of Experience directly identifies the potential for death unlike Songs of Innocence which implicitly identifies the dangers endured by children. In Songs of Innocence, the child chimney sweep dreams that while he was "locked up in black coffins...an angel who had a bright key...opened the coffins...set them all free" (Blake, "Innocence" 12 -14) . The child's dream of freedom appears happy and optimistic when in reality it is quite chilling that the child considers death as freedom. Blake presents the child chimney sweeper as an optimist to suggest that society needs to help children find freedom so they do not wish to die. Social commentary in Songs of Innocence is implied to highlight the child's inability to fully understand and believe that Blake is radical and heretical. Thus, Songs of Experience presents social commentary more clearly as Blake provides a more direct, perhaps more radical, speaker. Overall, it is evident that Blake is extremely critical of the exploitation of children during his time period. Blake's Songs of Innocence provides more implicit social commentary that forces the reader to think deeply about child exploitation. Songs of Experience features direct social commentary due to the mature nature of the child speaking. Although both lyrics provide similar social commentary, Songs of Experience expresses social commentary more directly due to the child's outspoken and mature nature. Songs of Experience was probably written as a sequel to Songs of Innocence at a later time in order to consolidate the implicit ideas presented in Songs of Innocence..