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LONDON William Blake (Commentary (this poem’s first lines recall the…
LONDON William Blake
Commentary
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All the speaker’s subjects—men, infants, chimney-sweeper, soldier, harlot—are known only through the traces they leave behind
the human form that Blake has used repeatedly in the Songs to personify and render natural phenomena—is lacking.
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The poem climaxes at the moment when the cycle of misery recommences, : a baby is born into poverty, to a cursing, prostitute mother.
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Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794) juxtapose the innocent, pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corruption and repression