Usan Hlaing
“According to William Blake, “London” the Industrial Revolution had changed the city for worse” (Bloom, Harold). The city is fallen on great depression. He uses dark portrait of a London to reveal the theme of people misery and hard times. He paints a misery of people and darkness of city life and human suffering derived from the Industrial Revolution. The language of the poem on how the poem was written and emotion of people are inevitable in this poem.
William Blake wrote the poem in such a way that readers can be more express full and involved. Blake uses the word “charter’d” which describes the condition of London as harsh condition. According to E.P. Thompson, “William Blake shows us how some seemingly simple changes have a major impact on the images and meaning of the work. The word “charter’d” arose in Blake’s mind in association with cheating” and with the ‘little blasts of fear’ of the ‘hireling’” (Thompson E.P.). “Charter’d” suggests the privilege of those who can use the river Thames itself for their use and whose …show more content…
Blake is telling us that their life experience and their pain, the meanings that these experiences have for their lives. Maybe the author wanted to give those kids a voice. The author wanted tells a story about events that connect in such a way to provide a chain of events that will connect to the readers. Blake maybe saying the kids were sold off when they were young to work hard and clean chimney. They work hard with no compensation other than food and shelter, also Blake portrays a horrific image in our imagination of how soldier’s dead bodies lay by palace wall. People of London are emotionally tired and drained and they are running out of will to