William Blake s London The Appalling Conditions Of...

In his poem, â€Å"London,† British poet William Blake describes the appalling conditions of London and its people. Innocence has also been a major theme that is throughout many of Blake’s poem, including â€Å"London.† William Blake uses metaphors and imagery to show the themes of disappointment and ruined innocence throughout his poem â€Å"London.† In the first stanza of â€Å"London,† Blake describes himself walking through specific streets of London, yet he is only describing the terrible and melancholy things he sees. Blake specifically chose to not include anything cheerful he might see in the streets of London. He is obviously displeased with what he sees, and those outweigh anything good he might see if he truly walked through â€Å"each chartered†¦show more content†¦Also, the mind, these chains are not real, they are of the mind, imaginary. One possible interpretation of these â€Å"mind-forged manacles† is Blake’s merging of what is real and what is fiction, which could explain the â€Å"marks of weakness, marks of woe.† Or, it could be interpreted as there was so much pain and sorrow Blake saw as he walked through the streets of London, that the chains created in his mind, and the other people, was the intangible correction of these problems. Another reason to believe the idea of restraint and intangibility is the use of the word â€Å"ban† in the line before, simply another restriction given to the people, whether that was a literal â€Å"ban† by the government or a restraint of the mind. The third stanza first mentions â€Å"the chimney-sweeper’s cry† (Blake 9). There is another poem by William Blake that specifically goes into a chimney sweeper’s job, but chimney sweepers are normally young boys who clean people’s chimneys. The working conditions are quite terrible, and they often sleep in the soot that they clean, it is just a very dirty and dreadful situation. â€Å"Every blackening church appalls,† (Blake 10) could relate back to the chimney sweeper’s and the black soot, and also Blake’s disappointment of the church. The chimney sweepers are young, orphaned, boys and the church’s duty is to help the orphans, according to the Bible. Blake may be expressing his disappointment of the church not helpingShow MoreRelatedAN ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM BLAKES SONGS2960 Words   |  12 PagesAN ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM BLAKE’S SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE AS A RESPONSE TO THE COLLAPSE OF VALUES TIMOTHY VINESâˆâ€" Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience are a much studied part of the English canon, and for good reason. Blake’s work depicts a quandary that continues to haunt humanity today: the struggle of high-order humanity against the ‘real’ rationality and morals of institutionalised society. This essay seeks to explore both Blake’s literary reaction to the Enlightenment and theRead MoreAn Analysis Of Mary Tudor And Her Little Girl Mary Ruler Of Scots3665 Words   |  15 Pageschanged the universe for their encounters alternately the route they felt/feel people through the run through might identify with the thing that they said alternately the thing that they stated clinched alongside their composing such as mary tudor and her little girl mary ruler of scots. Marxist-leninist Wollstonecraft s Vindication might have been those Initially for huge numbers replies. It may be an fascinating What s more rhetorically capable partake) energizes its own right and in addition AnRead MoreStrategic Marketing Management337596 Words   |  1351 PagesEmeritus Professor of Business Administration The Business School Loughborough University and Colin Gilligan Professor of Marketing Sheffield Hallam University and Visiting Professor, Northumbria University AMSTERDAM †¢ BOSTON †¢ HEIDELBERG †¢ LONDON †¢ NEW YORK †¢ OXFORD PARIS †¢ SAN DIEGO †¢ SAN FRANCISCO †¢ SINGAPORE †¢ SYDNEY †¢ TOKYO Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803 First published 1992 Second edition 1997 ReprintedRead MoreLangston Hughes Research Paper25309 Words   |  102 Pagescontinued to submit to segregation and live in poverty. Langston Hughes, 1933 (Library of Congress) Langston was not ashamed of being a black American. He had already written poems celebrating his heritage. He felt connected to the oppressed brown people of the world and hated his father for mistreating his Mexican employees. Witnessing his fathers tyranny made Langston sick enough to require hospitalization. By the end of the summer, Langston was glad to return to school in the United States