Quotes - London

• "Mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe": 'Blake uses repetition to help show that nobody in the city is safe from the constant suffering, the repetition can also show how what the people go through is relentless and does not stop.'
• "Mind-forg'd manacles": 'The metaphor suggests the idea of it being from their mind can show how everyone believes that they are free however it is all of their minds that are being controlled and trapped. It can also show how that the people themselves are to blame as they are trapped by their own thoughts and attitudes, helping show the sense of hopelessness throughout the people of London.'
• "I hear": 'Juxtaposition done by Blake, these manacles that he hears as it is inescapable could not just be others but his own shackles.'
• "hapless soldiers sigh": 'The adjective hapless helps to show how the people that are sent to war are not well equipped, rather they are sent to die as is further emphasised by how they're "Blood runs down palace walls".'
• "runs in blood down palace walls": 'The metaphor of the soldier's blood running down palace walls, directly blaming the monarchy in how their ignorance and abuse of power leads to the death of England's soldiers.'
• "blasts the new-born infant's tear": 'The innocence of newborn babies is lost immediately as a result of the society and the way London is run.'
• "In every man" "In every infant's cry" "In every voice, in every ban": 'The constant repetition of every helps to emphasise how it affects everyone in London and that nobody is able to escape the horrible conditions and how it was.'