London

The setting of this poem takes place in London and i though it took place at midnight. The reader can come to this conclusion when the narrator talks of walking "through midnight streets". It is in the slums of London also. We see this in the diction used to describe "the mark in every face i meet." Blake describes the sounds of the city and the "cry of every man..." and "the infant's cry of fear." When Blake begins to talk of the "soldier's sighs" i thought this might've taken place after a war and this was the after math of the war. The diction makes London appear gloomy and sorrowful.