"The Chimney Sweeper" poems—one from Songs of Innocence and the other from Songs of Experience—are the principal focus of this program, which compares the two poems, exploring their social context and style and returning again and again to the language in order to help the viewer penetrate into the poems themselves. The program also looks at "A Poison Tree," "The Sick Rose," and "Little Girl Lost." (20 minutes)

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