Willam Blakes poems depict a society that is filled with misery. He discusses Satan’s situation and how he will always be recognized in a negative way. This theme continues in the poems because Blake illustrates the dark events of his society. He suggests that the situations these people are in are not temporary. Even though people may try to find solace in religion it will not change their state of living. This is relevant today because people often use faith and religion for comfort and even hope like they did during eighteenth-century England.
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I agree with you on how his poems overall depict a miserable society. To an extent, I think that Blake connects society’s misery with the power that the church has over society and how it benefits some while it hinders others. Though, I think that while people do use religion to find solace, they do it not to change their state of living but try to accept, or justify, the sins they have committed (like in the last poem).