London Flashcards
Who wrote London
William Blake
What were Blake’s ideologies
Blake was a disestablishmentarialist
Talk about songs of experience
This poem was from Blake’s collection of songs of experience and this essentially means that this poem was focused on the conventional flaws within society.
What are key concepts within London? (3)
- Feeling trapped
- Criticism of the church and monarchy
- Impact of industrialisation
What is the structure of London
- ABAB rhyme scheme
- Iambic tetrameter is rigid to suggest that the suffering and pain in London is never-ending and also systemic within society.
- Dramatic monologue to present the speakers pain
Quote for corrupt institutions
“blackening church”
Quote for feeling trapped
“I wander through each chartered street…”
- Chartered could also connote to government authority and could suggest that government intervention is now even systemic within the streets we walk on.
Quote for feeling trapped
“I wander through each chartered street…”
- Chartered could also connote to government authority and could suggest that government intervention is now even systemic within the streets we walk on.
Quote for enslavement
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
Quote for repetition of chartered
Chartered streets, chartered thames
Quotation to represent the corruption of institution
“Runs in blood down palace walls”
London Comparisons (Unpleasant experiences) (4)
- The prelude
- Exposure
- Bayonet Carge
- Remains
London comparisons (Misuse of power)
- Ozymandias
- My last duchess
