In the poem “London,” Blake uses the theme of depression or sadness to criticize the poverty and the confines society has forced people into while the rich profit. Blake takes his time to point out and repeat the constant pain and sadness that his city is perpetually feeling. He emphasizes it by using repetition “In every cry of every Man, / In every Infants cry of fear, /In every voice: in every ban” He uses a vocabulary based around depression, with words such as “Weakness; Woe; cry; fear; sigh, ect” He explains how everyone around him, everyone being the common folk is depressed while the…