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The purpose of this paper is to examine the social criticism classified by dehumanization centering around Blake’s poetry. The eighteen century of England went through social upheaval and confusion through the influence of the Industrial revolution and the French revolution. Humanism and morality were fallen into ruin, materialism was flourishing. William Blake was a poet who had keen eyes for the dehumanization and losing human qualities caused by industrial society. The economic growth in England made their life more comfortable and exuberant but the submerged tenth of society have a struggle for existence. In Blake’s time, English society was overflowing with anti-humanization. Blake would try to seek for the way to recover humanity in his poems. He had insight into human nature of the dehumanizing effects of poverty and squalor. William Blake knows that materialism devastates the human emotions. He deplored the public tendency to regard money as being omnipotent. He criticized them in his poems with a keen salvation and would like to suggest the solution for human nature and hypocrisy. William Blake criticized them in his poems with a keen observation and would like to suggest the solution for social recovery and human release for modern society in his poem.