WILLIAM Blake, in the poem “London”, lamented that in every face he met in the city he saw “weakness” and “marks of woe.” Blake penned these thoughts at a time England was beginning its transition to the industrial revolution. While the industrial revolution paved the way for modernisation which led to the country’s economic advances and lifted many out of poverty through the creation of new jobs, it simultaneously left many out of work. The mechanisation of labour and the rise of the machine would prove to be a challenging time for the country as it rendered many worker […]
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