Both Blake and Heaney convey the feeling of fear, the feeling of fear is linked to authority because the

authority in their life

makes them feel fearful and uneasy. Heaney uses visual imagery of a police officers possessions to convey a powerful image of
the police officer. Fronting and personification is used His bicycle stood at the window sill to present the bike as an
intimidating object through Heaneys eyes. The dynamic-verb stood brings particular attention to the posture of the bike by
conveying it as solidly in place and resistant. This smug imagery of the bike makes Heaney feel inferior and suggests how
fearful he feels in the presence of just the Police officers belongings alone. Heaney moves on to describe the bike using the
verb-phrase the dynamo cocked back similar to the action of a gun suggesting Heaneys feels scared and believes that the
police officer is as brutal as a gun. Personification emphasises how big and heavy the police officer was the pedal treads hang
relieved of the boot of the law suggesting the concrete noun pedal treads feel relief when the police officer got off the bike.
This elevates the police officer and makes him seem bigger and scarier in contrast to Heaney who was a small child who
couldnt protect himself. The description of the officers possessions illustrates Heaneys eagerness and fear to see the owner
that possesses objects that belittle him. Enjambment conveys the panic felt by Heaney in fear that his father may get caught
out on his lie.
I assumed
Small guilts and sat

The enjambment creates uncertainty and panic as it draws attention to the double meaning that the verb assume holds; here
it is used as a stative and dynamic verb. The interrogative sentence in the potato field? I assumed suggests the child both
guesses the answers the father doesnt give and immediately assumes the guilt for his fathers actions. Heaney physically
takes on his emotion, his emotions proposes that he feels frightened and uneasy as he registers his fathers lie.
Unlike Heaney who uses Visual imagery of their authority to create fear, Blake uses death in relation to the work of chimney
sweeping to show fear for the childrens life. While Heaney uses a verb-phrase to depict a fearful image of the policemans
possessions, Blake uses symbolism for death to show the childrens fear of work Hush-Tom! Never mind it for when your heads
bare you know that soot cannot spoil your white hair this could be symbolic of death, when you die your hair slowly decays
over time, if they are dead and are slowly becoming nothing work could no longer play an influence on their life. The nounphrase Hush-Tom! emphasises the childs fear of death which is symbolic of his head being bare hear we see the child is
frightened of dying. The stressed syllable Hush suggests the child is being comforted, the Hush is similar to a mother soothing
their child with the word shhhh. The child comforts tom by portraying death as a positive thing Blake uses the structure of SVO
to depict this soot cannot spoil your white hair the concrete noun soot is being personified as someone who ruins them, the
child could be suggesting that death is the answer for soot not harming them. Here the fear for work is emphasised as the child
uses death as a better option than living and working. Contrastingly to Heaney who uses enjambment to portray fear of the
authority of the police man, Blake uses end stops
That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned and JackWere all of them locked up in coffins of black
To put further emphasis on their fear of work being the cause of their death. This could be symbolic of children being stuck and
suffocating in chimneys. Thousands exaggerates the amount of sweepers that are trapped in the miserable working life of
chimney sweeping, this suggests that the child feels even more fearful as the hope to be free weakens, if so many of these
sweepers can die there is little chance of him surviving. He then uses nouns which are common names Dick, Joe, Ned and
Jack to emphasise how common dying is that it happens to everyone. Blake uses inversion Locked up in coffins of black to
portray death, here we see the childs fear of dying as he relates death to being locked up creating a sense of being trapped
and unable to be free.