The Ugly Truth Behind The Beautiful City “London” by William Blake

In his poem “London'', William Blake uses imagery to demonstrate the harsh realities of living in London in that day and age and how not everything is what it seems to be. Some of this imagery is found in the third stanza, for example, through “How the Chimney-sweepers cry” and “Runs in blood down Palace walls.” The first line demonstrates the hardships that the Chimney-sweepers, the lowest class of people to exist, were suffering from everyday. We can just imagine how hard they had to work just to sustain themselves. In the second line, we are forced to picture blood running down the walls…