London Flashcards
1
Q
Suggests the whole city is affected, not just one area
A
“I wander through each chartered street”
2
Q
Repetition emphasises feeling of bleakness - despair affects everyone and there’s no relief from it
A
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
3
Q
People are trapped in every way, even by thoughts and attitudes
A
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
4
Q
Chiney sweeps were usually young boys - this is an emotive image of child labour
A
“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”
5
Q
Oxymoron - links the happy image of marriage with death. Suggests that everything has been destroyed
A
“plagues the marriage hearse
