In a London drawing room - George Eliot

Question 1

Summary

Answer 1

Talks about London’s urbanization, the speaker criticizes the depressing and dull london looks from the room. How the people are joyless.

Question 2

Themes (3)

Answer 2

• absence of nature and joy in the urban world
• London is a prison
• nature vs city

Question 3

Context (3)

Answer 3

• Mary ann evans actually wrote it but put a fake name as she was women and wouldn’t have got noticed then
• Lived in london
• Moved away from religion in a favour of love of nature

Question 4

Structure

Answer 4

• 1 long stanza
• similar line length
• no room for people to stop
• London will always be the same dull depressing city

Question 5

Language 1 - “the sky is cloudy yellowed by the smoke.” (3)

Answer 5

• Urban life is ruining the nature, turning the sky “yellow”
• Pathetic fallacy - to allow the audience to imagine the sky - to set the scene
• Suggesting the smog is from IR, dull dark mood, dislocation with nature

Question 6

Language 2 - “cutting; the sky with one long line of wall”

Question 7

Language 3 - “