London
- Created by: HannahCopner
- Created on: 07-05-18 20:46
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- London
- What happens?
- Depicts suffering of the poor in London
- The abuse of power by those in charge
- End of 18th century
- Meaning
- Political protest against government, church, monarchy and the industrial revolution
- Critique of human suffering as a result of pursuit of power
- Key Quotations
- 'Marks of weakness, marks of woe'
- 'The mind-forg'd manacles I hear'
- 'Runs in blood down palace walls'
- Language
- Anaphora - persuasive nature of suffering
- Synecdoche emphasising targets of protest
- Plosives + oxymorons final lines
- William Blake
- 1794
- Structure and Form
- 4 quatrains
- Ballad without narratice
- Regular rhyme scheme
- Repetition supporting inescapable nature of human suffereing
- Context
- Industrial revolution
- French revolution
- Royal charters
- Songs of innocence and experience
- Discovery of 'excluded' final stanza
- What happens?
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