Tone Of The Poem London

“London” by William Blake has a lot of symbolism but it also has theme and tone. The tone of this poem it could be a sad and angry tone but also biblical. The speaker has a very negative view about London but is also offering a prophesy of the terrible consequences that this city is going to experience unless changes are made. In other words Blake wants to let the reader know that death is all over London. There is no doubt that this poem has a lot of tone and attitude because in the lines "the Chimney-sweeper's cry / Every blackening church appalls" we can notice that what the speaker wants to make us see is that a lot of money is spent in church buildings while a lot children live in poverty and dangerous conditions without being able of enjoying their childhood and forced to clean chimneys for living. We can conclude that this poem it is without hope for the future; however, this poem not only has a lot of tone and
We can easily see that the chair in this poem is one of the most important symbolism in this story. In this piece of literature the speaker chooses to symbolize the absent of her love one with a chair in where she can remind his presence but also can be a therapy as well. This poem has a lot of symbolism because it show us that by just seeing a chair or other significate object can remind us the loss of a loved one. In addition it shows us that those we love are never out of our lives or gone from us. For this reason, the speaker choose a chair as an object to remind her lost. With a chair she can do what she does best, sit and relax, no matter how hard or bad her day was she knows that the chair is always going to be there for her when she need it because at the end of the day she can return to her useless love to rest because she knows that the chair is always going to be there for her. The chair symbolizes support. On the other hand, After a Death also has a melancholic