london

• the themes in this poem are power and place
• "marks of weakness, marks of woe"
• "plagues the marriage hearse"
• "runs in blood down palace walls"
• "youthful harlots curse"
• "mind-forg'd manacles"
• Blake hated the church and used the poem as an attack on the government as they were not helping the poor
• the poem is about the poverty in london
• London is poverty stricken and conditions were terrible in the 1700's when the poem was written
• the title represents Blakes observations of the city and the injustice around him