London

Question 1

Who wrote London

Answer 1

William blake

Question 2

William blake context

Answer 2

He lived and worked in london
He saw an angle in peckam rhye park
He normally wrote poems praising london
We class him as a Romantic poet

Question 3

London in 1760 context

Answer 3

Half of every 1000 children died before 2
Disease was common
Rubbish and excrement blocked the streets

Question 4

London key quotes

Answer 4

Each chartered street where the chartered thames doth flow → ‘chartered’ suggests entrapment, containment and restriction. Juxtaposed by ‘flow’ showing unfamilarity and confusion

Marks of weakness marks of woe →’Marks’ suggest permanence, alliteration emphasises the pain he sees in people

Mind forged manacles → entrapment, restriction, pain, self fulfilling

Black’ning Church → corrupt, tarnished, power, morality

blights and plagues the marriage hearse → corruption disease widespread
New start union happiness

Question 5

Structure - london

Answer 5

Anaphora - ‘In every’ is used to emphasise a cycle and widespread entrapment

ABAB rhyme scheme shows two sides of London and emphasises the restriction

Question 6

Summary - London

Answer 6

The speaker ‘wanders’ through the streets of london and notes the extreme poverty and limiting life choices of those that live there

Question 7

Tone in London

Answer 7

Despair
Powerlessness
Anger
Inevitability