London

• Who wrote london - Blake
• “marks of weakness, marks of woe”
• “Chimney sweepers cry… black’ning church appals“
• “i wander thro’ each charter’d street, near where the charter’s Thames does flow.”
• AO3: Romanticism - believed in spiritual and political freedom

  through london exposes oppressive state
• Themes

  • Political corruption
  • Power of nature
  • Human fragility
  • oppression
• Summary : exposes how society is divided - rich are rich, poor have no rights and aren’t cared about

  CLEAR SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN SOCIETY

  upper classes to use their power to help themselves - at expense of the poor - hence written after industrial revolution - poor exploited and left vulnerable

  believed power abuse needed to be stopped - inspired by french revolution ( poor over threw upper class)

  urging to revolt those in power
• Level 6 summary : believed in free thinking + didn’t confirm to societies standards

  He lambasts (heavily critiques) the rules of society and societal institutions as it lead to only oppression

  highly critical of 3 key institution : the church, the government, the monarchy

  wants to build change in social order and minds of men

  exposes how the vulnerable and exploited are chained to this oppression and it only intensifies as poem progresses