London
- Created by: isaacruhinda
- Created on: 25-04-18 16:39
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- London
- William Blake
- an english poet and artist
- had radical social and political views for the time
- believed in social and racial equality and questioned the church
- Structure and Form
- dramatic monologue
- personnalises it
- unbroken ABAB rhyme scheme
- echo the relentless misery of the city
- notion of being trapped within the cycle.
- dramatic monologue
- Anger
- metaphor
- “runs in blood down palace walls”
- reference to the French Revolution
- ordinary people suffer while those in power, in the “palace” are protected behind walls.
- “runs in blood down palace walls”
- metaphor
- power
- the misuse of power by those in control causes suffering
- repetition
- “Every cry of every man, in every infant’s cry of fear, in every voice, in every ban”
- bleakness
- "infants" make reader sympathise for child
- emotive language
- "ban" shows the rules and regulations put up by authority
- “Every cry of every man, in every infant’s cry of fear, in every voice, in every ban”
- “infants cry of fear”
- a distressing noise
- seem like a vivid, hellish experience
- repetition
- the misuse of power by those in control causes suffering
- Absence
- Absence of hope
- oxymoron
- “marriage hearse”
- happiness of marriage vs death
- “marriage hearse”
- oxymoron
- Absence of hope
- William Blake
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