london

• "i wander through each chartered street"
• "the chartered Thames does flow"
• "mark in every face i meet

  marks of weakness, marks of woe"
• "the mind-forged manacles"
• "every black'ning church appalls"
• "runs in blood down palace walls"
• "how the youthful harlot's curse

  blasts the new-born infant's tear"
• "blights with plagues the marriage hearse"
• William Blake - disliked organised religion eg church of england, often wrote about rebelling against the misuse of power and class

  London is a critique of human power and the suffering it causes