Blake Flashcards
Which poems for Blake have I chosen? (13 - not including coupled)
- The little black boy
- The Chimney Sweepers SOI & SOE
- The nurse’s song SOI & SOE
- Earth’s answer
- The garden of love
- The angel
- Holy Thursday SOI & SOE
- The Blossom & The sick rose
- A little boy lost
- A little girl lost
- The school boy
- My pretty rose tree
- London
What is the analysis for ‘The Little Black Boy’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: a mother is telling her son about God, love and how the world will treat him due to his race
AO2: colour imagery, exclamative, simile, light imagery, biblical imagery, repetition, animalistic imagery
AO4: Blake is pointing out the inequalities and oppression due to race
What is the analysis for ‘The Chimney Sweeper SOI & SOE’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: young children were sold to be chimney sweeps as they could fit in the chimneys, but often got stuck and died
AO2: simile, animalistic imagery, juxtaposition, colour imagery, metaphor, repetition, triadic list, oxymoron
AO4: oppression, child labour, poverty
What is the analysis for ‘The nurse’s song SOI & SOE’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: two nurses are looking after children, one allows them to continue playing whilst the other forces them to come home
AO2: juxtaposition, light imagery, triadic list, colour imagery, metaphor
AO4: perception of women, childhood innocence, authority figures
What is the analysis for ‘Earth’s Answer’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: Earth wakes up with despair over the state humans have caused
AO2: personification, plosive alliteration, colour imagery, list, explanative, question, metaphor, triadic list
AO4: presentation of women, treatment of women, oppression
What is the analysis for ‘The Garden of Love’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: the narrator is walking through the garden and discovers how the Church controls and supresses emotion and sexual desires that are natural
AO2: metaphor, colour imagery, child-like language, biblical imagery, plosive alliteration
AO4: Blake believed in free love, oppression from the Church
What is the analysis for ‘The Angel’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: a woman found love in her youth, but due to social boundaries, she lost her lover and couldn’t find it again later
AO2: repetition, anaphora, hyperbole, colour imagery, metaphor
AO4: sexuality, virginity
What is the analysis for ‘Holy Thursday SOI & SOE’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: orphaned children go to St Paul’s cathedral to pray, however, we see how the Church mistreats the children
AO2: adjectives, colour imagery, simile, repetition, metaphor, animalistic imagery, oxymoron, rhetorical question, exclamative
AO4: oppression, religion
What is the analysis for ‘The Blossom & The sick rose’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: sex is seen in two contrasting ways, one positive and one shaming women
AO2: repetition, metaphor, animalistic imagery, exclamative
AO4: sexuality
What is the analysis for ‘A little boy lost’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: a young boy questions the teachings of the church and is punished for doing so
AO2: rhetorical question, simile, animalistic imagery, verb, adjective, repetition, irony
AO4: The Church, poverty, voiceless, oppression
What is the analysis for ‘a little girl lost’? (summary, important quotes, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: a girl is shamed by her father for losing her virginity
AO2: repetition, exclamative, irony, metaphor, biblical imagery, child-like imagery, colour imagery, simile, adjectives
AO4: sexuality, virginity, women
What is the analysis for ‘The Schoolboy’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: the schoolboy is saying how he loves life but hates school
AO2: metaphor, animalistic imagery
AO4: childhood innocence, imagination
What is the analysis for ‘My pretty rose tree’? (summary, important quotes, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: the speaker was offered an affair but refused
AO2: metaphor, flower imagery, personification
AO4: sexuality, jealousy
What is the analysis for ‘London’? (summary, AO2 and AO4)
Summary: the narrator is walking through London and seeing all the poverty and suffering
AO2: repetition, anaphor, alliteration, violent imagery, oxymoron
AO4: sexuality, treatment of women, oppression
