London Flashcards
Men are seen as masculine with no emotion, therefore shows how bad and desperate the situation is.
Repetition of ‘every’ emphasises that everyone is effected.
“In every cry of every man”
This metaphor emphasises that the monarchy is guilty of living in luxury of the city while doing nothing to help the struggles
“Run in blood down palace walls”
Children were forced to clean chimneys
“How the chimney sweepers cry”
Connotations of ‘marks’ is like a scar, and they are being scarred of the image of weakness and woe, this people are not strong enough to stand up for themselves.
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
Blake feels that people are being restricted and limited somehow by handcuffs (manacles) and mind forged suggests that they are mentally barricaded from rising up against the injustices and speaking for themselves
“The mind-forg’d manacles i hear”
Why has Blake used a cyclical structure?
Suggests that the suffering is never ending
2 themes of London?
Social injustice
Power and Nature
What 2 poems can you compare London to?
Ozymandias
My Last Duchess
Oxymoron: marriage as a time to celebrate two people coming together and hearse is a funeral car. two opposite images to put together which implies that Blake feels strongly that life is meaningless in this , getting married implies that you may as well be dying.
Marriage Hearse
