London+analysis

In this poem, William Blake is describing his frusteration and hopelessness surrounding the political and social status of the place he lived at that time. He describes himself and the other citizens as being controlled by the government and everyone being corrupt. He speaks about how everyone is devastated about the current state of London and their social restraints that come from it but no one can do anything because it is like a "curse". He then almost describes giving up at the end, when he says that decay and ruin are inevitable and that everyone is just waiting for the hearse, or death.