London Flashcards
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Summary
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- Speakers walks through London,
- Near River Thames, every person, miserable, sorrowful,
- Hears pain, men/babies.
- Cry of young chimney sweeps , miseray shame on church authorities.
- Soldiers dying in vain. speaker imagines their blood
- Midnight cries of prostitues,
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The oppression of Urban Life
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- Polluted city reflects expression of human life.
- Industrial revolution
- ‘mind-forg’d manacles’, cuffs restriction of the mind. way humanity thinks of themselfs.
- Turns new life(joyfull) into something depressing. cyclical nature.
3
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Curroption of childhood
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- Broader belief, people born with everything they for a happy life
- Chimney sweepers
4
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‘wander thro’each charter’d street’
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- Walk casual/ aimless
- Everyday kind of despair
- Charter: legal document, granting or denying powers
- ‘charter’s streets’ - London like a cage, modern society, constricts, limits human life.
- Diacope, created by repetition. cage is permanent. Physical + mental limits.
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‘mark in every face’ ‘Marks of weakness’
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- Verb notice
- noun, describes the faces.
- Antanaclasis. everyone is marked by Londons repression,
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Runs in blood down Palace walls
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- Palace, metonymically represents British Monarchy.
- Sibiliance, ‘Hapless Soldiers sigh’ - Exhaling, sonic life.
- Metaphore of blood, buildings built on sacrifice and pain.
- Violence is a cycle
7
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‘The marriage hearse’
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- Oxymoron
- Marriage, love, hearse, death.
‘Plague’ - evokative, London wrecked by plagues
8
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Form
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- Acrostic, spells HEAR. emphasixe sense of sound that the speaker experiences in london.
9
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Meter
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- Regular, speakers walking pace. Then
- ABAB Rhyme scheme, misery, thematic concerns
