London: context - Blake wrote and illustrated two volumes of poetry which explored the state of the human soul. The 'Songs of Innocence' are positive poems which focus on childhood, nature and love, whereas 'Songs of Experience' (including 'London')
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The prelude: Stealing the Boat - "troubled pleasure"
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The prelude: Stealing the Boat - "for many days"
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The prelude:Stealing the boat: context - This is an extract from the first of fourteen books that make Wordsworth's poem 'The prelude'. The book is entitled 'Introduction - childhood and school-time'. Wordsworth was a 'romantic' poet. Like other
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My last duchess - "Wil't you please sit and look at her?"
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My last duchess - "how shall I say?"
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The charge of the light brigade - "Rode the six hundred"
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The charge of the light brigade - "Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew: some one had blunder'd"
