anthology: London. Flashcards
1
Q
what is the purpose and meaning of the text?
A
- believes London is hurting its residents- cursed and full of corruption.
- trapped by poverty.
2
Q
what is the context of the text?
A
- poet was a radical- social and political change.
- questioned the church.
- romantic poet.
- lived and worked in London.
- concerned about the treatment.
- alive during the french revolution.
3
Q
language and structure: explanation and quotes.
A
- written in iambic pentameter.
- repition of ‘every’- emphasises everyone is affected.
- ‘the mind-forged manacles’- metaphor- seems real to him.
- ‘black’ning church appals’- shows the corruption and hyprocrosy.
- ‘harlots curse’- prostitute- probably passed on STD to child, cursed with this life.
-quatrains. - acrostic ‘H, E, A,R’
4
Q
key quotes.
A
- ‘and blights with plagues the marriage hearse.’
- ‘blasts the new-born infants ear.’
- ‘how the chimney-sweeper’s cry.’
- ‘the mind-forged manacles i hear.’
- ‘in every cry of every man.’
5
Q
what does it pair well with?
A
prelude and Ozymandias.
