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1			Would you characterize "London" as concerned with themes of "innocence"? What about "experience"? Why?
2			What do you think Blake's speaker means by "mind-forged manacles"? Click on this link to read the phrase that preceded "mind-forged manacles" in an earlier draft. How do you make sense of the way in which his speaker perceives them: "I hear"?
3			How do you interpret the last stanza of "London"? Is there a social condition you know of that might explain Blake's allusion reference?