London

Question 1

Poet

Answer 1

William blake

Question 2

poet context

Answer 2

commenting on abuse of power by what is happening in the present, contrasting ozymandias

Question 3

“i wander

Answer 3

through each chartered street, near where the chartered thames does flow”

• wander- verb: lost, aimless, nothing to drive him
• rivers represent freedom, however this one is “chartered” or owned. An owned river, that’s meant to flow freely- Irony!
• rigid, spiteful tone
• chartered: repetition- bitter feeling, blaming the government for owning “free” things

Question 4

“marks

Answer 4

of weakness, marks of woe”

• soft alliteration shows sadness
• not a typical depiction of powerful london: shows that london is powerful because the people aren’t: it’s powerful, because it takes power away from its people. - people are powerless

Question 5

“every cry

Answer 5

of every man, every infants cry of fear”

• anaphora or “every” suggests that EVERYBODY is affected, even innocent children
• emotive language: loss of innocence as well as childhood

Question 6

“mind

Answer 6

forged manacles i hear”

• harsh alliteration
• psychological restraint: trapped in poverty, trapped by the government

Question 7

“runs in blood down palace walls”

Answer 7

• gruesome depiction
• metaphor
• directly criticising the government by blaming them for the people’s state

Question 8

Form

Answer 8

• harsh tone throughout
• derived and impoverished depiction of london: symbolises how you cannot trust those in power, as london is associated with wealth and something amazing, meanwhile the people are suffering.
• semantic field of misery and poverty: creates feeling of entrapment

Question 9

Structure

Answer 9

• dramatic monologue: autobiographical, narrative voice
• alternate rhyme lines
• quatrains: paragraph with four lines, represents ongoing misery the people in london feel