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London Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Showing how the rich controll everything

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“I wandered through each chartered street”

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Showing how there is only missory in London

Alitteration

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“marks of weakness, marks of woe”

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Showing how the people are dragging themself down

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“The mind-forged manacles I hear”

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Showing how children and men are the same

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“How the chimney sweeper’s cry…
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…And the hapless soldier’s sigh”

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Showing how everything has been corrupted by darkness

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“plagues the marriage hearse”

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Who wrote London?

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William Blake

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Describe the poet?

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Was a poet, artist, printer and was a revolutionist (he couldmprint hos own poetry: didn’t need other people to (who may block it because it is revolutionary)

He wanted social equality and questioned the church

He saw the French revolution as a guid for England

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Whn was the poem published?

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1794

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9
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Showing everything is controlled

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“each chartered street

… chartered Thames”

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10
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Showing that everyone has been branded wih negativity

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Repetition of “mark” (3 times)

In the first stans

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Showing the feeling of weekness and dispair

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Repetition and anaphora of 
"In every...
In every...
In every...
The mind-forged mancles I hear:"

Last line represents hope

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Showing the corruption of the church and pollution of the Industrial Revolution

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“Black’ning Church”

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Showing the seperation between the poor and the rich

May be asking for people to rebel

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“Runs in blood down palace walls.”

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Showing how innocent people need to no uninnocent things to survive/live

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“youthful harlot’s curse”

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What form is the poem in?

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A dramatic monologue

First person naration speaking clearly about the problems in London

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16
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What could th regular rhyme scheem represent?

What is the rhyme scheem?

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Regular ABAB rhyme scheem could reflect the missory he sees

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What could the regular rhythm represent?

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His footsteps as he walks through London

18
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What does each stanza focus on?

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Stanza 1 and 2 - people’s suffering

Stanza 3 - who is at fault

Stanza 4 - how suffering even effects new born children

19
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Feelings and attitudes?

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Anger - through emotive language and repetition

Hopelesness

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Poems to Compare

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Individual experience of an area - The Prelude, The Emigrée

Power of Man, Ozymandias, My Last Dutchess

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