Chimneys have been around for years and they are not the cleanest places in the house. There is a lot of soot that builds up in chimneys and gets stuck inside the chimney that you can't see unless you go in to see. As with any mess, someone has to clean it up. Nowadays we have an easier method of doing such dirty jobs, but back then, chimney cleaning was not described as easy. To actually fit into the chimneys, you would have to be very small. The children had the unfortunate task of cleaning these chimneys. The children tasked with cleaning the chimneys were sometimes as young as four years old and the majority of them were orphans. The work was also dangerous. Children could become trapped and suffocate or regularly burn and injure themselves. This was obviously something close to the poet William Blake's heart. William Blake, one of the world's greatest Romantic poets, titled not one but two of his poems "The Chimney Sweep." One of them is in his collection Songs of Innocence and the other is in the collection Songs of Experience co....