What is the message of this poem?
The abuse of power and corruption of institutions like the government and the church.
What poems can you compare it with?
Ozymandias (Corruption of Power)
Checking Out Me History (Issues with Institutions)
Chartered streets….
Chartered Thames.
Marks of weakness….
Marks of woe.
Mind-forged…..
Manacles.
Runs in blood….
Down palace walls.
In every cry….
Of every man.