London

• London


  • Blake - wrote against the misuse of power, England was at war with France at the time and it was the start of the industrial revolution.
  • Themes - oppression, Identity, corruption, misery.
• "the marriage hearse"


  • oxymoron- marriage is good hearse is a funeral car
  • it shows that all good things are destined to be destroyed in London.
  • this is due to the society being corrupted and people being opressed
• "chartered Thames does flow"

  • Irony - shows how people are trying to control everything, even things that are natural and cannot be controlled.
  • Shows that human control has gone too far and is corrupted
• "Hapless soldier sigh runs in blood down the palace walls"


  • links to French revolution- he predicts the same thing will happen in London.
  • This shows how he believes that the people in charge should be overthrown
• 4 equal structure, Iambic pentameter


  • Shows how tight the control that people in power have
• Cyclical structure


  • the suffering is everyday, it is repetitive and never ends
  • Shows how the misuse of power has led to opression in the whole city