Romantic and Contempory Poetry - Analytical Exposition

The monarchy and rulers of the time are seen in the poem as unfeeling and leech-like such as in the line “rulers, who neither see, nor fell, nor know.” The exploited and abused the working class for their own personal gain. “A people starved and stabbed” is an example of how language in the poem is used to show the abuse. The parliament (senate) composed of mainly the aristocratic higher class who held positions of power at the time, is also positioned to be uncaring with no concern for the people.

Religion is attacked with the oxy-moronic “Christless, godless” line, suggesting that the comforts of Christianity that had held over the centuries had begun to fade, leaving the people helpless with nowhere to go for guidance and possibly faith.

A supernatural element also characteristic of the Romantic Poet is evident in England 1819 with the emergence of the “Phantom” in the last sta

William Blake’s poem “London” expresses the oppression, weaknesses and plagued lived of the people living in the slums of industrial London. Discourses within this poem are political, social and moral, showing 18th century London as a place where free expression and institutions such as marriage had disappeared as a result of moral depravity.

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