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London by William Blake

LISTEN TO THE POEM AND COMPLETE WITH THE CORRECT WORDS

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London

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

In every of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear.
In every ; in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I

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

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

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READ THE COMMENT AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW

"London" is one of the most powerful description of the industrial towns to be found in literature. It's one of Blake's greatest poems, this poem shows the suffering brought by the industrial revolution and it belongs to the �Songs of Experience�.

The passage from the innocence to the experience is the passage from a simple world to a deceptive one. So, if in the �Songs of Innocence� Blake seems the poet of childhood,

in the �Songs of Experience� he become the terrible critic of the contemporaneous world.

His polemic is about two themes: the first one is the politic one, a politic attack towards an oppressive society where the exploitation is one of the main problems, here we can see a reference mark towards the Industrial Revolution against which he celebrates

French and American Revolutions.

The other theme is moral and religious one, a criticism to a Church which became an instrument of spiritual oppression because of its dualism about soul and body, its moral code against instincts, its idea of a mysterious and cruel God typical of Old Testament instead of a merciful God typical of the New Testament.

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1. "London" is the description of

2. It belongs to the

3. He criticizes

4. He attacks

5. He also attacks