London

• Charted streets … charted Thames does flow

  Everything is controlled including the streets and rivers

  critiscising the governments control through the restriction of nature
• Marks of weakness, marks of woe


  Everything is effected by the change in britain
• in every cry of every man


  Repetition of every show the scale of the suffering, reflects how everyone is suffering
• In every infants cry of fear

  Most vunrable to suffering
• The mind forged manacles I hear


  Controls everything including freedom of thought
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  Intention is to expose the corruption by forcing people to HEAR there suffering
• Black’ning church


  Critiscises religon and how it is meant to be omnibenevelant
• Runs in blood down palace walls


  Criticise the monarchy suggesting they are guilty of killing soilders
• Blasts the new-born infants tear


  Most vulnerable
• Plagues the marriage hearse

  Oxymoron

  portrays the death of old London, something that was loved in now ruined and dying
• Blake was criticising those in power, including religon the monarchy and government.
• Blake also criticise the Industrial Revolution and its impact on society
• Key themes


  • abuse of power
  • power of religion
  • power of government
  • mans power
• Comparison pomes


  • checking out me history
  • my last duches
  • tissue
  • storm on the island
  • extract from the prelude
• Each stanza has a tightly controlled length and rhyme scheme which reflect the strict control London was under
• Repetitive rhyming scheme, reflects the repetive and cyclical suffering