ANTHOLOGY - london Flashcards
“i wander thro”
languid verb, directionless
“charter’d”
urbanised, increasingly dominated by money, mapped
“charter’d”
oxymoron, shows restriction and ownership
“mark” “marks of weakness, marks of woe”
flaws/ imperfections, miserable, unhappy, deep rotted sadness, will never leave them
“in every” “in every” “ in every”
repetition, anaphoric phrase, all encompassing
“mind- forg’d manacles”
hand cuffs, government robbed them of their own thoughts, unable to think outside the box, imprisoned by the industrial revolution, institutional oppression, alliterative , powerless to held anyone but forced to wage wars
“chimney-sweeper’s”
generic social minorities, child labour
“black’ning”
associates with chimneys, literal and non literal, sense of darkness
“hapless soldier’s”
violence
“runs in blood down palace walls”
evokes emotional imagery, royals metaphorically have blood on their hands
“harlot’s”
prostitute, auditory
“marriage hearse”
funeral car, oxymoron, destroys marriages, people get married because they have to
“infant’s tear”
born out of wedlock/ into prostitution, baby crying after young prostitute swears at it, born into a world of fear and tears
structure
begins with an iambic tetrameter- like a person walking, regular rhythm is broken- reflective of a broken city or society, broken iambic pentrameter
