The image and the poem work together by it is describing the city of London which is very depressing and miserable. The city London is a dark place and the people are being abused in the city. I see in the image that I have selected that helps me understand the poem fully is the young child helping the old men and guiding him to a place. In the poem it talks about is the first stanzas it talks about I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet. The speaker is talking about meeting and seeing someone in the city of London.
What do you make of the two figures in the poem? Even your description of it – with the child guiding the old man – actually seems lighter and more hopeful in some ways than the poem itself. What do you think? The two figures also seem to be represented in a visually light way – as opposed to the darkness of the poem.