In the passage the poet describes London using personification, the city appears mostly as a "helper" since it gives life and shape to various people who live there.
When he uses the pronoun <em>them</em>, he talks about women.
He says <em>"Pygmalion had seen them, spending their lives in wickedness, and, offended by the failings that nature gave the female heart, he lived as a bachelor, without a wife or partner for his bed".</em>
And that is why he decided to create his own partner, he carved a sculpture and he fell in love with it.
Answer:
He appeals to the people of his race and to "white" people that they may one day have rights and freedom.
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