AQA Power & Conflict Poetry - London
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- London - William Blake
- Key Themes
- Power of humans
- Loss and absence
- Negative emotions - anger
- individual experiences
- Form & Structure
- Dramatic monologue and 4 line quatrains
- Could maybe mean that the message Blake was trying to get across was that even things that look and sound simple, have a complex underbelly
- Rhyme scheme is fairly simple, ABAB
- adds to idea of simple things being more complex than meets the eye
- consistency of theme, rhyme and repetition
- adds to idea of simple things being more complex than meets the eye
- Blake used snapshots of some elements of London in each quatrain to really represent how bad it got
- narrator represents relentless images of downtrodden, deprived people.
- Dramatic monologue and 4 line quatrains
- Language features
- rhetoric terms- used by narrator to persuade the reader about his point of view
- sensory use - poem includes the depressing sights and sounds
- first stanza is about what he SEES, second about what he HEARS and the last 2 stanzas combine the VISUAL and AURAL
- contrasts - used to show how everything is affected and nothing remains pure or innocent
- context
- through his poetry, Blake wanted to awaken in people what's happening in London - How the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer
- Blake was a dissenter ( arrested for going against the king/queen)
- He had a spiritual side- believed in the connection between life & after life
- Key quotations
- "mind-forged manacles"
- shows how people are trapped by them. "mind-forged" suggests eternity as forging was a job where people made shackles and cuffs that were hard to break.
- shows that people aren't able to surpass 'expectations of their class' due to mental restrictions,
- that their society metaphorically imprisons them with the pressures and ideas of society under scrutiny
- "marks of weakness, marks of woe"
- Sets up melancholy tone to the poem. syntactic parallelism shows how it's everywhere
- "Black'ning church appalls"
- represents loss of innocence. How Blake criticises the church for lack of intervention
- "mind-forged manacles"
- Key Themes
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