1) Yes I do believe the editors of the book when they say that his poetry can change society. The poem that Blake has wrote paints a vivid picture of the boy working as a chimney sweeper. It shows how his family struggles forcing him to work so he can continue his own life. This causes the readers to feel bad for the boy. People in lower classes, and possible in the lower middle class could look at this poem and start to compare their life to the boy in the story. This may motivate people to try to change their current society. This means that the editors could have been right.
2) The reason the editor may include the document was to show the similarity to our time, and our social system. By compare our time to theirs we can see the similarities in the two systems. We may see how people in our time try through art, or media to change society like Blake did. This helped reading the poems easier since I could compared the poems to my on time.
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