Essay 2

Introduction

This purpose of this research paper is to discuss the portrayal of exploited children and the presentation of religion as consolation in William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" from Songs of Experience and Elizabeth Barret Browning's "The Cry of the Children".

Discussion

The both poems are about the child labour in which the writer explained the humiliation of young children, due to which the children were exploited. Children in the poem “The cry of the children” would work in the coal mines as draft animals pulling carts filled with coal through the mine shafts (Browning, 35).

Many children took life in the mines ...