London
According to the speaker in the poem, "London", the streets of London are corrupt and impure, making "London" a sorrowful poem from start to finish. Blake uses specific images to describe the turmoil of disaster brought upon the society of London by its predecessors and "Marks of weakness, marks of woes" in ever direction he turns. The repetition and solid choice of diction clearly represents a society where depression hovers over everyone's head. There is precise details of different people's woes such as cries of "every man," "every infant's cry of fear", "chimney sweeper's cry", and "the hapless soldier's sigh". There is a particular image of a landmark, the Thames river, rising in Gloucestershrire and flowing 210 miles past London to the North Sea. Theses recognizable images collaborate into a melancholy of a unrecognizable London realm.
Blake uses specific, tangible images of larger concepts and institutions. Such as the Thames river, which stood as a battleground in......
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