LONDON:WILLIAM BLAKE / NSOU

 

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 Infants cry of fear,

In every voice: in every ban,

The mind-forg'd manacles I hear 

 

How the Chimney-sweepers cry

Every blackning Church appalls, 

And the hapless Soldiers sigh

Runs in blood down Palace walls 

 

But most thro' midnight streets I hear

How the youthful Harlots curse

Blasts the new-born Infants tear 

And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse 

1.    “London” presents an image of contemporary English society”. Discuss. December, 2009

2.    Write a note on the imagery and symbolism in Blake’s ‘London’ December, 2011

3.    Comment an Blake's vision of the city in the poem "London." June, 2017

      4.Comment on Blake's use of symbols in the poem "London". June, 2018