London - Blake

• What is the context?

  • Set around the French revolution
  • Dramatic monologue about corruption of society and exploitation of the vulnerable
  • He had controversial views and challenged authority
  • Believed urbanisation was dangerous
• I wander through each chartered street
• In every cry if every man
• The mind-forged manacles I hear
• Every blackening church appalls
• Runs in blood down Palace walls
• youthful Harlot's curse
• Blights with plagues the Marriage hearse