london

Question 1

who wrote london

Answer 1

william blake

Question 2

why does london have 4 line stanzas and regular rhyme scheme

Answer 2

it’s a protest poem so it makes it more memorable

the strict abab rhyme scheme could represent the monotony of the city

Question 3

i wandered through each chartered street

Answer 3

• complaining about urbanisation
• everything is owned by the monarchy
• chartered is physical barriers but alludes to the mental barriers

Question 4

“the mind frog’s manacles i hear”

Answer 4

-forg’d-means fake alluding to the hierarchy of london isn’t real and is a construct
-images of oppression
-endless cycle of poverty
metaphor

Question 5

“every blackening church appalls”

Answer 5

• juxtaposition the church is meant to be good but it’s blackening
• church isn’t following jesus teaching
• critique of church

Question 6

what is the double meaning of appals

Answer 6

appals- shock the church should be shocked but it isnt

could also be a coffin cover suggesting the church is dead

Question 7

“runs in blood down palace walls”

Answer 7

this is volta where it switches from political power to male power

• french revolution-soldiers will die protecting the monarchy so the people rise up
• dig at the monarchy

Question 8

“and blight with plagues the marriage hearse”

Answer 8

-feminist poem
alludes men sleeping with prostitutes, stis are then passed to the children and continue the cycle
metaphor