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Power and Conflict
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Blasts
the new-born infant's
tear
and
blights
with
plagues
and
marriage
hearse
Every
blackning
church appals ... runs in
blood
down
palace
walls
The
mind forged manacles
I hear
I wandered
thro
each
chartered
street
I wander thro each chartered street
Chartered- streets have been
mapped-
urbanisation
destroying nature
Contrast-
shows we can still be free and
'wander'
Blasts the new born infant's tear and blights with
plague
and
marriage
hearse
Men
killing their
marriages
Reference to
STIs-
children born with
disabilities
due to lack of antibiotics and hygiene -
harlot's curse
prostitution
Every blackning church appals ... runs in blood down palace walls
Metaphor- coal turning buildings
black
+ death of workers in
chimneys
Church now
capitalist
Appals-
'pall'
over dead body- church is
dead
and has turned away from
christ
Attack against
king-
warns of
revolution
like in france- consequences of
mistreating
the poor
Mind forged manacles I hear
Metaphor-
oppression, owned by
capitalism
, we have done this to ourselves
Hierarchy is just a
construct
Forge-
fake things- get
rid
of manacles we are wearing