One of the most shocking quotes is “How the harlots curse” which is showing that there are prostitutes and they have sexually transmitted which are killing them because there is no medication for them.
“How the chimney-sweepers cry” this quote is saying that the chimney sweepers are working so much it is killing them.
In the first stanza it is mainly about him and what he is seeing as is most of the poem “I wander thro each charter`d street” but this stanza is at his point of view the most “And mark in every face I meet”.
In the second stanza it is mainly about the people living in London and what is happen to them “in every face; in every ban,” and “The mind-forg`d manacles”.
In the third stanza is about the people but also about the king and the church “Every blackning Church appalls” and another one very powerful one “Runs in blood down the places walls”
In the forth stanza is ending the poem with a very powerful last stanza “how the harlots curse Blast the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse” this ends the poem very well and makes you think that London is a very bad place to be, and William Blake I think was very put his passionate about this poem, and shocks the reader.
The second poem I have chosen is Chimney Sweeper this poem is very sad because it is just about how the chimney sweepers are treated, abused and been sold by there parents for money and have too work for a master.
In the first stanza, starts the poem with a description about what the chimney sweeper looks like “A little black thing among the snow” this is telling us (the reader) that the chimney sweepers have no where to go for the night and have too sleep rough on the floor.
The second line on the first stanza has a very well used quotation “crying weep, weep in notes of woe” the first piece of that is good use of poetry “weep, weep” sweep, sweep and is saying that the chimney sweepers and crying and sweeping at the same time.
“Where are thy farther & mother? Say? They both gone to church to pray”
This shows that the parents have gone to pray for their children that they have sold to the master of the chimney sweepers that paid 20-30 shillings for there child.
The second stanza is like the chimney sweeper talking about his passed life when he was living with his family “Because I was happy upon the heath” this is saying that he was happy when living on the heath.
The second line on the second stanza is still the chimney sweeper talking about he’s life again “And smil`d among the winter snow” this line is saying that he liked the snow when he was younger.
The third line on the second stanza is saying that he is going too die in the clothes that there parents put them when they sold them “They clothed me in the clothes of death” which is a very shocking line in the poem and means that they are not going to live very long in their life.
The fourth line on the second stanza is also him talking about his life in the past “And taught me to sing the notes of woe.” This is saying that he is singing about crying and sadness.
The third stanza on the first line is about the chimney sweeper again being happy “And because I am happy & dance & sing,”
The second line on the third stanza is saying lies about the people that he works for saying “They think they have done me no injury” this is saying they treat him badly when working for them.
The third stanzas on the third line is about god and the king “And are gone to praise god & his priest & king” this is saying that the king is like by those that do bad and treat other people as does the church.
Conclusion
I think that the two poems are the kind of the same because the London poem is mainly about all of London and the chimney sweeper poem is about one thing In London the chimney sweepers.
The poems are very good because they both have other meanings in the poems and uses very powerful words in his poems.
He write about the things that he thinks are bad and things that he has seen in London.
Both of the poems are based in London and are trying too showing that London is a bad place and not where you want to live if you’re poor, and on of the things he has focused on the most this how children are being treated the worst e.g. chimney sweeper and child prostitute.