London Flashcards
C. Where did Blake live
London, first hand experience
C. What was the poem from
A collection called “songs of experience”
T. “London”
Capital city-powerful,industrial
Ov. What were the people like
Weak, worried, prisioners
Ov. What type of images are portrayed
Misery
Or. What form are the stanzas
Iambic pentameter
Or. Regular rhyme scheme
Security of the powerful juxtaposes poor’s lives
Or. Same quatrain structure
Doesn’t change like their suffering
Or. Stanza 1/2/4 focus
Suffering creating cyclical structure
Or. Stanza 3 focus
Root of suffering
Or. “In every”
Anaphora unstoppable suffering
L. “Charter’d”
Repetition natural world controlled by money
L. “Weakness” “ woe”
Alliteration exposes London’s misery/reality of poor
L. “ mind frog’d manacles”
Metaphorical image cycle of poverty, mentally / physically oppressing
L. “Blood down palace walls”
Violent imagery, French Revolution, powerfully people are corrupt/ neglect people
