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Explain how Blake uses imagery, form and language in these poems and what they reveal about him. - page 6
Keywords: William Blake, Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
By Vikram on 30/12/2008
Level: A Level (Year 12) / AS Level
Page Number: 6 of 6 pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6through each chartered street,’ the reader gets the feeling of actually walking through London. The ‘chartered’ streets and Thames imply that the town is crowded but also full of restrictions. However, from the line Blake uses it still remains difficult for the modern reader to imagine how smelly and dirty the streets actually were.
Finally, Blake turns his attack on the lack of morals in London. Late at night, ‘the youthful Harlot’ is still wondering the street in a town where there was mass prostitution, and often young girls were forced into of because of poverty. Their ‘curse’ is that they transmit sexually transmitted diseases which then spread and became, at the time, almost like an epidemic or the ‘plagues’ that were spreading through London on a regular basis anyway. The wives of those who went to the prostitutes were infected, the children born infected and died early, and so they were already born with the ‘tear’ of unhappiness in their eyes. The metaphor of the ‘Marriage hearse’ show how marriage, one of the sacraments of the church, has become a death trap for Londoners because of the decline in morals.
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