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The New Historicist approach to text would enable us to historicize the poem, in other words, to interpret it as a product of historical development and thus as a text mirroring the social conditions of the miserable and the wretched living in the time in which the poem was written.

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To this end, in the study, the poem has been put in its social and historical contexts and the meanings of the images which Blake put in the poem have been discussed, and thus the politics prevailing in the period in which the poem was written and their reflections in the poem have been studied. Therefore contextualization is taking a great part in the study.

In the poem Blake basically protests against three major institutions: the government, the monarchy and the Church. He makes his criticism of these institutions through generalization of three main figures in the period. Thus Blake depicts London, in the poem, as a city in which Londoners are exposed to the subjugation of the authority and power in, what he saw as, a corrupted social system.

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