London

• London context:

  • Blake lived in London
  • Wanted to raise awareness of poverty
  • Poor but 'rich in spirit'
  • Hated industrial revolution
  • Romantic poet
  • Spoke for them who couldn't
  • Against monarchy
• London structure :

  • First person narrative : meet every face he meets, direct impact, feel his emotions and feel sympathy.
  • 4 stanza, 4 lines and ABAB rhyme scheme : restriction and no space
• London quotes

  Mind forged manacles

  Blackning church

  Young harlots curse

  Newborn infants cry

  Marriage hearse