But these manacles are “mind-forged”. ... If the manacles are “mind-forg'd”, it means that we make them ourselves. These are our self-imposed limitations, the things that hold us back, the prison that we create in our own mind. In other words, Blake finds us entirely responsible for our own misery, pain and suffering.

What device is mind forged manacles?

(This is in opposition to the ideas of Romanticism.) Blake seems to be attacking the Capitalist system. '… mind-forged manacles' Use of metaphor and alliteration to represent how the city's people are trapped and perhaps to blame.

What language technique is mind forged manacles?

"Mind-forg'd manacles" is figurative language--metaphorical, to be more specific. The human tendency to abandon his/her own liberty is compared to shackles or chains that imprison a person when he/she is captured. The handcuffs are of our own creation.