London

Question 1

Perspective

Answer 1

First-person perspective on an anonymous speaker

Question 2

Why is simple language used?

Answer 2

For people to understand

Question 3

Simplistic structure

Answer 3

Four regular stanzas, followed by an alternate ABAB rhyme scheme, contrasts the complex, seemingly unending issues Blake sets forth in his work. The fixed structure underlines the sense of complete control and oppression the lower classes feels in London. Blake feels the public aren’t standing up against institutions of power.

Question 4

Mostly consistent from iambic tetrameter, but breaks from it to show how people can rise up against institutions of power

Answer 4

“Marks of wealness, marks of woe.”

Question 5

Cyclical structure

Answer 5

The first/second stanzas focus on the impact on people , the third explores the source of suffering and the fourth goes back to the impact

Question 6

HEAR

Answer 6

The first letters of each line of the third stanza spell out HEAR as Blake wants reader to listen to signs of surrounding suffering(“How,” “Every” “And” and “Runs”)

Question 7

“Mind-forged manacles”

Answer 7

“Manacles”- associated with slavery/lack of freedom