Cultural traditions and historical background behind William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper”

Choose and answer one of the following questions: Using research and your own analysis, write an essay in which you compare and contrast the themes, cultural traditions and historical background behind William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” (from Songs of Innocence) and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”. OR Read Trifles (a play) by Suzan Glaspell. Thereafter, answer the following question: What are the ‘trifles” that the men ignore and the two women notice? Why do the men dismiss them, and why do the women see these things as significant clues? What is the thematic importance of these “trifles”?    

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