London
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 23-05-18 15:55
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- London
- Form
- Ballad
- Dramatic monolgue
- ABAB rhyme unbroken
- Regular rhythm
- Structure
- Focus in each stanza
- 1+2: people he sees/hears
- 3: institutions
- 4: innocence destroyed
- Relentless images of downtrodden, deprived people
- Focus in each stanza
- Context
- Lived in London during Industrial Revolution
- Large gap between rich and poor
- French Revolution
- Believed in social and racial equality, questioned Church teachings
- Quotes
- "mark in every face I meet/Marks of weakness, marks of woe"
- "In every cry of every man,/In every infant's cry of fear"
- "The mind-forged manacles I hear"
- "Every black'ning church appalls"
- "the hapless soldier's sigh/Runs in blood down palace walls"
- "through midnight streets"
- "the youthful harlot's curse/Blasts the new-born infant's ear,/And blights with plagues the marriage hearse"
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