Blake's "London": An Analysis
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In the poem "London", Blake shows that oppression can not be defeated.
Weakness and cursing which then leads to death play the dominant roles in
the poem. Throughout the poem there are descriptions of woe and misery.
Blake uses these to emphasize that poverty and neglect result in confusion,
chaos, ....
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.... is the freest part of the individual. The body
may be constrained by the environment, by other bodies, by health, or any
number of other restraints. The heart, which is to say the emotions , are
pulled this way and that by the influence of others. Even the soul,
according to predestinists, is limited by the supply or lack of divine
grace. Not so the mind; it is the only part of the individual which may
truly be said to be free.
Weakness is also illustrated in the repetitions in the first ....
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