London

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

-1794
-non-conformist
-romantic poet
-Industrial Revolution/French Revolution

Question 2

Form

Answer 2

-quatrains
-abab
-iambic tetrameter
-creates idea of control that is being placed on London

Question 3

‘I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow’

Answer 3

-wander suggests aimlessness/freedom
-repetition of adjective (each street is mapped out)
-he is in contrast to those streets
-flow - juxtaposition - control/freedom

Question 4

‘I’m every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice:’

Answer 4

-anaphora - shows vastness and repetitive nature of suffering
-cry repetition - emphasises suffering
-‘Man’/‘Infants’ - juxtaposition

Question 5

‘The mind-forg’d manacles I hear’

Answer 5

-metaphor - connotations of control and imprisonment
-alliteration (nasal) - menacing/sinister
-implies that the manacles are something the public enforce themselves, so he wants them to rid themselves of it and take control

Question 6

‘How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackening Church appalls’

Answer 6

-colour symbolism - Church is in contrast to the darkness
-corruption of the Church

Question 7

‘How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse’

Answer 7

-juxtaposition (young prostitutes) - upsetting/criticism about what is happening to them.
-metaphor (Harlots curse) - disease (STI) - prostitutes and passing STIs to their babies