London
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- Created on: 06-05-19 13:26
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- London
- Context
- Blake was born in London
- Anti-authortarian
- Felt the Church didn't help the children living in poverty
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- Was a radical + eccentric
- Wanted sexual/racial equality
- Worked during 'The Englighten ment' and 'The Romantic' eras
- Themes
- Power of Humans
- Ozymandias
- My Last Duchess
- Storm On The Island
- Tissue
- Loss/ Absence
- Exposure
- Anger
- Individual experience
- Remains
- Bayonet Charge
- The Prelude
- Power of Humans
- Linked poems
- Poppies (loss/ absence + individual experience)
- The Emigrée (loss/absence + individual experience)
- Kamikaze (loss/absence + individual experience)
- War Photographer (Anger + individual experience)
- Checking Out Me History (power of humans + anger)
- Techniques
- Semantic field (dejection + anger)
- ABAB rhyme scheme
- echoes relentless misery + despair
- Rhythm mimics footsteps as he walks around London
- Dramatic monologue
- Parallel syntax "In every..."
- 1st Person
- Oxymoron "Chartered Thames"
- Chartered (ordered), Thames (free running river)
- Quotes
- "Marks of weakness, marks of woe"
- "In every infant's cry of fear"
- "Mind-forged manacles"
- "Black'ning church"
- "Hapless soldier's sigh"
- "Runs in blood down palace walls"
- "Midnight streets"
- "Youthful harlot's curse"
- "Blights and plagues"
- "The marriage hearse"
- Context
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