Topic > Compare and Contrast William Lendon and Dover Beach

Every church building is “blackened” with chimney smoke. Blake uses the metaphor to describe that the church should be shocked by the cry of the “chimney sweep.” He is there to help the poor, but it is a shame that he did not give this help. Blake also shows the reader the image of the “unlucky” soldiers with their blood running down the palace wall. Blake shows the last image of London in the last stanza. The image of the prostitute who is the truth behind the respectable ideas of marriage. Use the word “plagues” to describe the picture of the sexually transmitted disease that will affect the