Most of the children were poor, orphaned and some were sold into labor, Blake reveals this "When my mother died I was very young, / And my father sold me while still my tongue / Could scarcely cry" (1-3) William Blake's "The Chimney Sweep" brilliantly expresses the mindset of two individuals created to fulfill these job expectations at an early age. Despite society's judgments on child labor, William Blake uses irony and sarcasm to get his beliefs across, to the church and to society he has failed to put an end to adolescent chimney sweeping. Blake lays down a poem full of pain and suffering, but it is engraved with a silver