london

• “mind forged manacles”

  • metaphor
  • their ideas are changed
  • no freedom
  • thoughts are owned
• “new born infants tear, and blights with plagues the marriage hearse“

  • circle of life
  • born into misery
  • married in inequality
  • die in sadness
• william blake was working class
• abuse of power
• “mark in every face i meet, marks of weakness marks of woe”

  • wide spread struggle
  • permanent scar caused by higher classes
  • lower classes have been drained and are left with nothing
• “i wander through each charted street”

  • london is being over taken
• themes

  • human power
  • fear
  • pride
  • loss and absence