Part one of term paper
In , William Blake portrays a very dark and abysmal picture of . Throughout the whole poem, Blake never mentions a positive scene. The poem seems to deal with the lower class part of society, the part which lives in the poor neighborhoods. The first stanza begins with the speaker wandering around . Throughout the poem, Blake repeats a word wh ...

Part two of term paper
... speaker talks about all the negative emotions which he sees in the people on the street, "In every cry of every man,/ In every infant’s cry of fear,/ In every voice, In every ban,/ The mind-forged manacles I hear." In the final line of the first stanza, the speaker says that he hears the mind-forged manacles. The mind-forged manacles are not real. By this I mean that they are created in the mind of those people whom the speaker sees on the streets. Those hopeless and depressing thoughts, in turn i ...