Analysis of the poem "London" by William Blake

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Analysis of the poem "London" by William Blake


London
                                          
I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. 
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear 

How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls, 
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls 

But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear 
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse 

The poem "London" written by William Blake begins with the perception of charter'd street  and charter'd Thames. The fourth line of the poem refers the weakness of human being. William Blake insists the idea of humanity.  The chartering  refers to the mechanism to enslavement of the nature through reason. The capitalism is the result of the industrial revolution.
The second stanza emphasis the human sacrificing. Human beings are ultimately the part of nature. Here, Blake wants to explain that human being eventually becomes the master of the nature.  In the second stanza, the poet listens the mind-forg'd manacles in every cry of man, in every voice and infants cry of fear. The system has been subjected by the nature. The manacles that mind forged enslaved because of the mind that enslave itself.
In the Poem Chimney Sweeper, the child is forced by parents, state and church but in the poem "London", the child is forced by "mind forged manacles". 
The emergence of "youth-full Harlot's curse " refers the innocent sexuality.  The new born infant hears the first sound of the Harlot. The innocence is blasted. It refers the condition of higher innocence in the dark world of experience.
London is completely tragic poem which suggests the chance of higher innocence is broken out.


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