London- William Blake

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  • London- William Blake
    • Structure
      • 4 stanza with 4 lines + alternate line rhyme (abab)
        • "street...meet" "flow...woe"
      • tight rhyme scheme represents power + rules  of society rulers.
      • each stanza show different part of London
        • rhyme scheme also shows rhythm to show the narrator walking.
          • "I wander through"
    • Language
      • negativity
        • "weakness"
        • "woe"
        • "cry"
        • "fear"
        • "plagues"
    • Techniques
      • Oxymoron
        • "marriage hearse"
          • marriage should be a celebration of life and life- but hearse is associated with funerals.
            • pregnant + forced into marriage/the future only brings death.
      • Polysemous words
        • "marks of weakness"
          • physical marks due to the conditions they endure.
          • speaker recording evidence during his walk.
      • Repition
        • shows the scale of poverty in 2nd stanza
          • "In every cry of every man"
          • "In every infant's cry of fear"
          • "In every voice, in every ban"
      • Alliteration
        • "mind-forged manacles" (handcuffs)
          • emphasises the restriction  on peoples mind
            • the city has robbed them the ability to think.
    • Corruption of power
      • Blakes attacks certain institutions for letting poverty happen.
        • "The chimney-sweeper's cry/ Every black'ning church appals"
          • money is spent on church while children live in poverty.
          • soot from which blackens the church walls.
          • makes mockery of church- religion should bring love.
        • "Run's in blood down Palace walls"
          • allusion to the french revolution-if conditions don't change people will revolt.
      • "Chartered street" "Chartered Thames"
        • charters that allocated ownership + rights to specific people.
          • others saw this as robbing ordinary people of their rights and freedom.
    • Background
      • poem shows poverty throughout London and its causes.
        • "harlot's curse/ Blasts the new-born infant's tear"
          • prostitutes curse the child which suffers for their sins- no other choice.
      • he references to religion to show the failure of the church.
      • Born in 1757.

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