London
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- Created on: 22-05-22 16:41
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- London
- Quotes
- "marks of weakness, marks of woe"
- Repetition
- emphasises feeling of bleakness - despair affects everyone and there's no relief from it
- Illness
- Repetition
- "I wander through each chartered street"
- adjective
- Blake is commenting on how every part of London is owned by someone and so the city itself is not free
- verb
- sounds purposeless
- reflects how he feels powerless to change what's happening
- sounds purposeless
- adjective
- "chimney sweeper's cry... hapless soldier's sigh
- Emotive imagery
- Chimney sweeps were usually young boys - child labour
- Emotive imagery
- "Runs in blood down palace walls"
- French Revolution
- he thinks ordinary people suffer while those in the palace are protected behind walls
- French Revolution
- "The mind-forged manacles I hear"
- People are trapped in every way, even by thoughts and attitudes
- The speaker "hear[s]" various distressing noises
- Makes it seem like a vivid, hellish experience
- metaphor
- manacles are handcuffs, suggests people's minds are controlled and not free
- "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse"
- juxtaposition
- shows that every hope of happiness is tainted with despair.
- marriage becomes a death sentence
- oxymoron
- links the happy image of marriage with death
- suggests that everything has been destroyed
- links the happy image of marriage with death
- powerful language of illness and disease
- Destruction is implied by "blights" and "plagues" hints at something that's uncontrolable and destined to affect lots of people
- negative language
- juxtaposition
- "marks of weakness, marks of woe"
- Themes
- Social Coomment
- Blake sees London as a place full of despair and misery because of the oppression people are under
- He does not see any hope for society because people have so little power that they lack the imagination to change their lives
- Blake sees London as a place full of despair and misery because of the oppression people are under
- Despair
- The church and the state offer no hope for the poor and are instruments of its oppression
- Powerlessness
- Power of Humans
- Loss and Absence
- Anger
- Individual Experiences
- Abuse of Power
- Social Coomment
- General
- Strong and regular rhythm and rhyme
- Ballad Form
- Dramatic Monologue
- Iambic Tetrameter
- First Person
- Suffering (due to abuse of power) is never-ending and has a great impact on everyone
- Wiilliam Blake
- Quotes
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