London - William Blake
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- Created on: 03-04-19 20:24
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- London
- William Blake
- 1794
- Structure & Form
- Uses quatrains and iambic tetrameter
- Highly ordered and regular use of four more elements
- Uses a lot of repetition in the form of ABAB
- Context
- William Blake
- a Romantic Poet
- Lived and worked in London during the Victorian Era
- Inspired by the French Revolution
- Doesn't like the industrial revolution and the gap between the rich and poor
- Industrial Revolution in London
- Made London the biggest city in the world in 1795
- Saw a time of great poverty and industrial change in London
- William Blake
- Beginning
- 'each charter’d street'
- Mapped out and planned forming the idea that the streets are controlled and regulated by higher authorities
- 'Marks of weakness, marks of woe.'
- 'Marks' has a connection of permanence and scaring suggesting that these conditions are here to stay
- Shows that the poor are weakened from the powerful rich that are exploiting them
- 'each charter’d street'
- Middle
- ' mind-forg’d manacles'
- Creates the image of mental control with the noun 'manacles' meaning chains
- Implies that the people are trapped emotionally in society and in their social class
- 'Runs in blood down Palace walls'
- Implies that the soldiers are dying in pointless wars with Blake blaming this on the monarchy
- ' mind-forg’d manacles'
- End
- 'the youthful Harlots curse'
- Observes how young girls/women have to go and try to make money in London
- 'Harolts' are prostitutes
- 'Marriage hearse'
- a hearse is a funeral carriage. Blake ends with this oxymoron to create an ominous tone
- Blake seems to be implying that there is no happy end for the poor people as they are born into a lower social class - resulting in pain and death
- 'the youthful Harlots curse'
- William Blake
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