1) Blake's choice of presenting us with "innocence" and "experience" shows that Blake meant to bring about social change by exposing the innocent stage of childhood and the experienced but nonetheless corrupt stage of adulthood. Blake helps us build an image of a little boy working hard as his parents have left him. He does this by appealing to our imagination. The words "my mother died when I was very young. And my father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!." seem to say that the boy was so young when he began sweeping that he could not even advertise his trade and call out "sweep! sweep!" and not "weep! weep!." Nonetheless, the word "weep" works perfectly for this poem because it appeals to emotion and it makes the reader think of the little boy in pain and hardship while he's weeping. Blake wanted to those literate, high-class citizens to see how the trade of sweeping had affected the life of children and how corrupt child labor was.
2) The Parliament transcript was included as a primary source document because it validated the words of William Blake. This source served as a credibility source and helped emphasize the importance of child labor. It affected my reading of Blake's work in that it all became very real to me and definitely helped take the matter more seriously. A type of writing such as poems that usually is though of as delighful to read, turned very dark and I saw a different side of poetry. This helped see Romantic poets in a different light because it reaveled that their intentions for writing went beyond artificial ones to entertain the readers, but called for change.
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