The usage of imagery by Blake illustrates the corruption of major institutions towards lower-classes, such as the royal family’s implication in the population’s suffering and deaths: "Blood down Palace walls" (Blake, 12). This parallels the expression “blood on your hands”, meaning that one is “responsible for someone else’s death,” according to the Oxford Languages dictionary; a palace is immense and blood running down its walls shows that countless lives have been taken by the monarchy’s inaction or decisions. Although the soldiers are aware of the bloodshed, they are powerless to change…