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Political Turmoil In William Blake's London

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During the French Revolution, it highlights the political turmoil and suffering impoverished families endured in the eighteenth-century. William Blake’s poem “London” (1794), brings emphasis to the dire circumstances, people faced through the usage of imagery to signify corruption and inequality. In the opening stanza, the speaker uses repetition of the words “charter’d” (1) and “Marks of weakness, and marks of woe,” (4) while observing the streets of London. The usage of the words illuminates the governmental control and misery people experience. Furthermore, through the second and third stanza, the speaker stresses “In every voice; in every ban, / The mind-forg’d manacles” (7-8) he hears the cries of constraints being placed on society. In
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