With the day section, we read Blake's "London":
I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind forg’d manacles I hear.
How the Chimney-sweeper’s cry
Every blackening Church appals;
And the hapless Soldier’s sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls.
But most, thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot’s curse
Blasts the new-born infant’s tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
In this poem he is attacking the corruption that urbanisation brought to English society. People are unhappy, afraid; and often this fear is of their own making - the "mind forg'd manacles". He attacks the Church for its hypocrisy-while it claims to be the defender of the meek and helpless, it refuses to allow chimney sweeps to enter churches to worship. He also attacks the monarchy, saying it is the cause of war and the needless death of soldiers. The image he paints is Hell on Earth.
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Fortunately I didn't live that time. Blake this poem is also wort to know. Perhaps one us would be a chimney swippers that time. Reaaly the people who lived that time lived a world in hell.
HATİCE ERDOĞAN
It is a poem of social protest, against the suffering of all who live in a world such as this. It is also about misery and human despair. Blake wants to tell that the rapidly indutrialising economy and society corrupt and poison all those who live in it.
No-one was immune. Blake's poem on England's capital city, written in 1792, is a devastating portrait of a society in which all souls and bodies were trapped, exploited and infected.
It would be very hard to live in that time in England for orphan children,but even they have parents,they couldn't live without money..It is very upsetting:( Blake shows us the hard times of England with his poems,and he criticizes the society..
It must have been very difficult to live at those years. We can understand this from the poem easily.We should realize the importance of the time we live.
Yasemin YILMAZ
Blake shows us the troubled times of people in London, and does this with using language successfully, I think.
I think, in these troubled times children suffer most! It is sad situation :(
The society that exist with money,inevitably has troubles such as discrepancy of income.With the industrial revoluation,new classes especially merchants tokk all the power.Besides Blake's London,we had initative thought about the results of industrialism.What equals inustrialism is imperialism.Marx says that imperialism brings the cold feeling of paying instead of personal aspect of life.If you want to acqire more detail, you should read DAS CAPITAL.
It is really difficult to survive in life without money and without parents for children. Blake critizes the condition of life in England in poems.
no one wants to live in such a society and period but always this is like that, that is, a society experiences such bad things then they get the freedom, security, peace and so on.
The conditions that the children manage to live are very difficult.I think Blake wants to show these difficulties ,and the life conditions of these children.I think the most important point is that children don't have a right to say anything about their own lifes...
William Blake prefer to be an observer of human suffering whether it is the town of England or the the children of England. According to Blake, the massive factories and densely crowded cities with vulgar urbanity, these are all the consequences of Industrialism.Vulgar Industrialism filled the air of London with the sound of people's sufferingand crying.
Soldiers were unhappy as they had to die for rich people and not for a true, reasonable cause.
The church seemed to help the poor , didn't hear the smallboys' cry(chimney sweepers). He sees the suffering of each class of society.
It is always a problem deciding whether industrialism bring common goodness or not.From the social point of view,we have to bear up bad cosequences of it.
poor people of that time, they suffered and Blake reflects this miserable life style effectively.
Blake's lONDON is an effective and a real poem which explains the social status of england.we see there the big transformation of farmers to the workers of factors in rural areas and the combination of different customs and cultures..
Blake's London reflects England in that time.also it interested in society and economic corrupt. It is very sad :(
This is an anti-vision poem, but it implies that a vision is needed, and this lifts it out of despair. Its rising anger, reaching its height in the Shakespearean last line, is like a battle cry, or at least the precursor to one. It doesn’t just catalogue the woes, but by ordering the encounters, reveals their cause and their inter-connection. It shows the power of articulation both in the victims’ utterances – the sweep, soldier and harlot marking the city, by black’ning, splashing their blood, infecting it – and in the poem's own rhetorical eloquence.
Today London is full of life and energy and not as depressing as it was then
THis poem tells about London in which Blake lives. The poem is devastating and concise political analysis, delivered with passionate anger, revealing the complex connectiions between patterns of ownership and the ruling ideology, the way all human relations are in escapably bound together within a single destructive society.
Blake describes 18th century London with people who understood, with depressing wisdom, both the hopelessness and misery of their situation
we are lucky because we did not live in such a place and at such a time.we have a lot of opportunities for a good life.
Blake told about how miseralbe people live in london at that time. now people live in london should read this poem every day and they thank to god for they have a good life...
William Blake's "London" is a representative of English society as a whole, and the human condition in general that outlines the socio-economic problems of the time and the major communal evils.
The point of view in which Blake employs to London is significant to the understanding of the poem
Today there are still many people in the world who lives in misery and in dispair. İf this text is real potrait of the society in London, I believe that these people who live today in unbearable conditions have a chance of a good and worth living life, looking at the present conditions of London. It just requires enormous effort and great patience.
The poem London by William Blake was published in Songs of Experience during the French Revolution in 1794s. It reflects people suffering, Blake saw in London and the situation in which London was suffering from political and social unrest. In the poem Blake describes 18th century London as a city of hopelessness and misery. Thanks to god that I wasn't born in such a bad condition..
This poem was written ironically.It was told in the form of a new human being starting life ,a baby is born in poverty and his /her mother died.Blake show us miserable London life.
It is a satiric poem about the politic and social situation of London in 18th century.Children were suffering a lot at that time.They were trying to survive in bad conditions. Blake critisized that situation in a different way and tried to make people realize the difficulties that children had.We are very luck to live in good conditions.
Blake manages to describe how the people of London and how London itself had been affected by industrilisation.He made contrast between rich and poor in his words to show harsh realities faced everyday.
In LONDON, the people is very sad and are fed up their lives because of the government' wrong policies and also their poorness. It is really a social problem that should become better, but this is not in London. Blake writes it as a warning and a protest, but it have not changed the situation or it is unclear. On the other hand it is evident that the rich is very very rich, and don't help the poor or they overlook.
The aim of blake in this work is tp protest the bad situation of the country including children, poor people...in that time living london looks very difficult. Money was very important in that time in London.Blake reflects all this bad conditions in this poem London and he put the blame on the society.
Blake shows us the bad conditions of England by this poem.I learned lots of thing about the life of those days.It is very saddening.I feel myself happy as I didn't live in such a time and place that the children had to face with those difficulties.
The author tries to emhasizes on the bad conditions of London. The children living at that age were very unlucky and poor.
I understand once again from Blake's LONDON that money and power is not useful always.
The most impact on me is::
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban...!
considering the industrial and the agricultural revolution started in England, it's not difficult to say that there would be a great change in community. the shifting dynamics of the country had reflected its effect onto the casual lives. Blake shows the current social conditions and harshly critisizes them. It was also one of my favourites.
This poem tells the most difficult problems of that period very successfully.In third stanza,we can see what we learned in English Literature Course.Church is against the poor and meek people instead of helping them survive in the country peacefully.The rule of the period 'monarchy' is also criticized.Monarchy is shown as the thing that brings death,sadness and woe.Monarchy,the hypocrisy of the church and urbanisation makes London and all country uninhabitable.
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