London

This poem by William Blake was one I really enjoyed interpreting and figuring out. What stood out to me was the repetition of "every cry" in the first two stanzas. It really had a tone of distress and mourning. The third and fourth stanzas were important in the fact it told you what the poem was about. The third stanza places blame on two parts of society: royalty and the Church. Both have pushed away the ordinary in society or the soldiers. The fourth paragraph has a tone of sympathy. Specifically, the speaker is sympathetic towards "harlots" and infants who tear apart marriages. What I love about this poem is that once you read the fourth stanza, you have to connect it back to the third in order to decipher what is really to blame in this society.