‘Chartered’ a sense of ownership and possession even the Thames and streets are owned. Owned,controlled and dominated by the state by those ascending in power and the top of the social hierarchy.Blake wrote this poem when large amounts of lands were
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“Chimney sweeper's cry and the mind forged manacles I hear”
Dehumanising children ‘chimney sweepers’. Small children were forced to climb down narrow chimneys were they would develop cancer,injure themselves and would be burnt by the fireplace below.Children are the new generation, the future but these childr
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“Hapless soldier's sigh,youth harlots curse the newborns infants tear’
Emphasizes a perpetuating cycle of impoverishment,desperation and social injustice and inequality that these jeopardised and vulnerable should encounter. Sounds like ‘sigh’,’cry’,’curse’ gives a hellish experience that portraits a unerathy landscape
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“The blackening church appals Blood runs down palace walls”
Colour imagery ‘blackening’ symbolic of darkness,corruption,greed and abuse of power contradicts religious and moral principles and teachings. Church is a religious institution of hope,guidance,light from heaven bestowed and blessed on the common fol
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“Blights the plague with a marriage hearse”
Moral message for social and political transformations that essentially need to occur in society or else it will lead to anarchy and revolution where it will have catastrophic consequences like abolition,execution,civil war and bloodshed. The poverty
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“Chimney sweeper's cry and the mind forged manacles I hear”
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Dehumanising children ‘chimney sweepers’. Small children were forced to climb down narrow chimneys were they would develop cancer,injure themselves and would be burnt by the fireplace below.Children are the new generation, the future but these childr
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“Hapless soldier's sigh,youth harlots curse the newborns infants tear’
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Card 4
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“The blackening church appals Blood runs down palace walls”
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