London

Question 1

Who wrote it

Answer 1

William blake

Question 2

What centry was it

Answer 2

18th century

Question 3

How did blake feel about religion

Answer 3

Blake rejected religion as he was angry at their decisions by the church

Question 4

What kind of poet was he

Answer 4

Romantic and victorian poet

Question 5

Where did blake live and work

Answer 5

Lived and worked in londong

Question 6

“Marks of ……”

Stanza 1

Answer 6

“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”

Question 7

“Every black’ning…….”

Stanza 3

Answer 7

“Every black’ning church appalls”

Question 8

“Blasts …..”

Stanze 4

Answer 8

“Blasts the newborn infants tear”

Question 9

“Bligthts with…..”

Stanze 4 (last line)

Answer 9

“Blights with plagues the marrige hearse”

Question 10

First line of the poem

Answer 10

“I womder thro’ each charter’d street”

Question 11

Last line of the poem

Answer 11

“blights with plagues and marrige hearse”

Question 12

Annotate - “i wander thro’ each charte’d street”

Stanze 1(first line)

Answer 12

First person, no destination the narrator is lost. “I wander”
“Chart’d” shoes that it is confined, mapped out, legally defined. Land is owned by the government, decisions made by them. Blake was going agianst the government.

Question 13

Annotate - “cry of every Man”

Stanze 2

Answer 13

Propernoun, refers to mankind, also shows the males position in society in the 18th century (they are more important”

Question 14

Annotate - “marks of weakness, marks of woe”

Stanze 1

Answer 14

Unhappy state of society at the time.

Lmarks of wor” shows distress and grief.

Question 15

Annotate - “infant cry of fear”

Stanze 2

Answer 15

Children also suffere in society, repetition of cry suggests people are constantly suffering.

Question 16

Annotate - “in every vioce, in every ban”

Stanze 2

Answer 16

Repitition of “everyl shows it is everwhere and effects everyone.
“Ban” shows how much controll thr government has and people were restricted with what they can do.

Question 17

Annotate - “every black’ning church appalls”

Stanze 3

Answer 17

Blackening from factories and polution from the 18th century.
Blake is suggestion the church is corrupted, hope was weakening. Darkned outlook on society (metaphor)

Question 18

Annotate - “blood down palace”

Stanze 3

Answer 18

Metaphorical , Loss of innocent soldiers is now being put on royalty becuse it was their decision to send them out. Going against the orders to society the ruelty made.

Question 19

Annotate - “blasts the newbborn infant’s tear”

Stanze 4

Answer 19

“Blast” verbal attack, young girls are prostitutes, this cuased them to suffer.
with the birth of a new generation of suffers, Blake demands that we intervene and break both the cycle of poverty and our own “mind-forg’d manacles”

Question 20

Analyse - the youthful harlot’s curse

Stanze 4

Answer 20

The emotive noun “curse” here could demand we imagine these poor abused women screaming insults at a newborn baby (a deeply upsetting image) or imagine the “curse” suffered by prostitution: venereal diseases and unwanted pregnancies creating more poor people to be “chartered” by the powerful and the selfish.

Question 21

Annalyse - “blights with plagues and marridhe hearse”

Stanze 4 (last line)

Answer 21

Oxymorron, society is beong controlled.
Blakes own feeling that with prostitution can lead to marridge intona kimd of “hearse” /death, soreading like a plauge to innocent people.

Question 22

Abab rhyme

Answer 22

Rhymimg scheme reflects the pace the poet is waalking around.
Could also suggest how controlled society was in the 18 century with the gobernment over powering and controllign it.

Question 23

What does title “london” cause.

Answer 23

Its the place they live.
The title causes the reader to imagingpe they city with there own opinions and view on it.
The readers in the 18 century that lived here may agree but a modern day reader may feel uncomfortable and disterbed from the harsh imagery throughout.

Question 24

Tone

Answer 24

The tone is very negative because blake was going againt the government and chruch becise he didnt like what they did.

Question 25

Overview of the poem

Answer 25

“London” was written by william blake. The poem describes a walk through London, which is presented as a pained, oppressive, and impoverished city in which all the speaker can find is misery. It places particular emphasis on the sounds of London, with cries coming from men, women, and children throughout the poem. The poem is in part a response to the Industrial Revolution and government being over controlign, but more than anything is a fierce critique of humankind’s failure to build a society based on love, joy, freedom, and communion with God.

Question 26

How many stanzas does the poem contain

Answer 26

4 stanzas (each woth 4 lines)