"The Chimney Sweep"

Question 1. The little boy's atitude is a positive one. The little boy is showing himself and people around him that this life they live isn't that terrible and they should only look at the positive side rather than the negative. When one of the litte chimney sweepers gets his hair cut off, the boy says, "Hush, Tom! nevermind it, for when your head's bare, You know that the soot cannot spol your white hair." This boy is looking at these horrible events as no big deal, to him it is just something he has to deal with in life that he accepts. The poet's atitude through out this poem is just looking at the negative sides of this story. It is all about, why would a father sell his son? Why does this poor boy have to do a dirty job he doesn't deserve to do? All these questions are implying the hard, difficult life this child lives and how to the poet it is a huge deal, but to this little boy it is nothing.