William Blake's "London" is a poem in which the imagery is used by the poet to create a dark vision of the urban setting and to give hints of daily horrors taking place on the streets of the city and behind closed doors. The speaker walks through the streets of the city and observes on every face "Marks of weakness, marks of woe" (4). He notes that he is wandering through every chartered street and also refers to the river as the "charter'd Thames." He seems to be linking the degradation of human life with civilization, with a civilization that can produce a government that needs to name and "legalize" streets and the river itself. The result is a street filled with people who have the horror of their lives etched on their faces.
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