comparison

Question 1

What do COMH and london both do

Answer 1

they both convey ideas of how humankind’s greed of power affects the lives of many people

Question 2

where is agard from

Answer 2

guyana

Question 3

bandage

Answer 3

‘bandage up me eye with me own history’

Question 4

blind

Answer 4

blind me to my own identity

Question 5

extended metaphor

Answer 5

gruesome image of torture

Question 6

connotations

Answer 6

helpless and uncertainty ‘blind’

Question 7

physical torment

Answer 7

better than hiding him from his ‘own identity’

Question 8

evokes

Answer 8

deep sense of sorrow and grief from reader

Question 9

london government

Answer 9

immoral

Question 10

mind-forg’d manacles

Answer 10

attatched to citizens like prisoners

Question 11

link

Answer 11

agard restrained from his identity

Question 12

citizens=

Answer 12

hopeless prisoners to the monarchy and ‘blackening church’

Question 13

proletariat

Answer 13

physical and emotional suffering=grave and potent effect of mankind’s corrupting power

Question 14

manacles of identity

Answer 14

serious

Question 15

what is more potent and grave effect

Answer 15

physical and emotional suffering of the proletariat in london is a much more grace and potent effect of humankind’s corrupting power

Question 16

london structure

Answer 16

abab rhyming scheme, iambic tretameter

Question 17

what does london structure hint

Answer 17

they are inescapable, prisoners, in a cycle

Question 18

cyclical structure

Answer 18

start with weakness and woe, end with curse

Question 19

start of three verse

Answer 19

8 syllables

Question 20

end of three verse

Answer 20

7 syllables

Question 21

proletariat remain?

Answer 21

married to death ‘marriage hearse’

Question 22

structure of comh

Answer 22

dramatic monologue, physical separation of identities/history, indent para conveyed by diff fonts

Question 23

para 1

Answer 23

humankind’s greed of power

Question 24

para 2

Answer 24

similar- both restrained

Question 25

para 3

Answer 25

different COMH gains power

Question 26

para 4

Answer 26

diff structure