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London William blake

I

wander through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered 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-forged 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, through midnight streets I hear
How the youthful harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.

=, (Lyric). The poet write strong sentence that give us
meaning beyond it's original one. For example in the last second stanza ''the mind-forget manacles I hear' # )

. Blake expressed in many clauses in his poem how the children are suffering from the government. For example '' in every infant's cry of fear , pain of those children who will cry from the fear. (Childhood). The rhyme scheme in this poetry is; ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH. #
In the first stanza the poet narrated that the king considered the country as his own properties '' chartered street and chartered Thames''. Chartered means a document by the corporation, the charters were given by government and nobody has the right to use this street just the friends of the king.
In the 3rd and 4th lines we can see the sadness and weakness on the faces of the people due to the corruption of the monarchy. Blake mentioned that they were distributing the business on their followers without concerning about the poor people. # The poet used the word '' every'' several times in the second stanza to indicate the fear, weakness and the suffering of the people in the society. Blake used this repetition to empathize on the extreme misery if the common people. #
In the 1st line of the third stanza, Blake used symbolic image by comparing the people with the Chimneysweeper who suffer from the poisonous dirt of the chimney '' how the chimney sweeper's cry'' as indication that the chimney sweeper is the people who cried from the dirt of the rulers.
In the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lines the poet express the corrupt of the church and army who were not free either because the king used them as fatal tools against the common people '' runs in blood down palace #
the last two lines the poet used a great device called '' OXYMORON'' when saying '' marriage hearse'' it is a very gloomy image to describe the wedding carriage as death carriage. Blake used two opposite symbolic ideas to contrast the meaning. This image shows that the marriage and the death became same in their eyes because they lost the hope neither in family or future. The poet used hearse instead of carriage because in that time marriage die before it start.



كتبت معضم التشبيهات والصور الرمزيه لقصيد لندن مع الامثله من القصيده نفسها وايضا شرح لها
واشكر أم حمدان على جهودها وايضا الزملاء الذين ساعدونا بتجميع كل ما يخص مقدمة في الادب

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