Quotes

• "chartered street"


  1. mapped out

  highlights familiarity
• "Marks of weakness, marks of woe"


  Creates a bleak and unpleasant picture which reinforces the negativity.
• "Mind-forged manacles"


  Creates a sense of restraint and the exploitation of humanity.
• "Every black'ning church appalls"


  Ironically sinful looks dirty and oppressive institutions (the church was seen as immoral).
• "Hapless soldier's sigh"


  Unfortunate and futile
• "Runs in blood down palace walls"

  Image of consequence of poverty.
• "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse"


  Even a marriage would now be associated with death for him (oxymoron is used).