London

Cards (8)

  • 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