Blake's "London": An Analysis

Part I of Essay
In the poem "London", Blake shows that oppression can not be defeated. Weakness and cursing which then leads to death play the dominant roles in the poem. Throughout the poem there are descriptions of woe and misery. Blake uses these to emphasize that poverty and neglect re ....

Part II of Essay
.... by other bodies, by health, or any number of other restraints. The heart, which is to say the emotions , are pulled this way and that by the influence of others. Even the soul, according to predestinists, is limited by the supply or lack of divine grace. Not so the mind; it is the only part of the individual which may truly be said to be free. Weakness is also illustrated in the repetitions in the first and second stanza: " I wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow, ....