London

Question 1

Anaphora of this phrase reflects confinement

Answer 1

charter’d

Question 2

what things are “charter’d”

Answer 2

street
Thames does flow

Question 3

people are disheartened

Answer 3

marks of weakness, marks of woe

Question 4

opening showing that the poem is a journey

Answer 4

I wander

Question 5

Anaphora of this phrase demonstrates how widespread these factors are

Answer 5

In every

Question 6

capitalisation shows that “Man” means all men

Answer 6

cry of every Man

Question 7

All children are scared

Answer 7

Infant’s cry of fear

Question 8

industrial connotations of how people are confined in their mind, repressed

Answer 8

mind-forg’d manacles

Question 9

industrial and religious imagery. Both the physical buildings are becoming blackened but also the establishment is becoming darker

Answer 9

black’ning Church

Question 10

this perhaps links to the French Revolution

Answer 10

blood down Palace walls

Question 11

under the cover of darkness, a journey of darkness happens (dodgy stuff)

Answer 11

thro’ midnight streets

Question 12

prostitutes both literally cursing due to their bad situation but also they have a curse on them perhaps?

Answer 12

youthful Harlot’s curse

Question 13

the cursing shows the injustice served to the prostitutes and (their) children

Answer 13

Blasts the new born Infant’s ear

Question 14

perhaps this is suggestive of STDs

Answer 14

blights with plagues

Question 15

this is extreme juxtaposition of new life and death

Answer 15

Marriage hearse.

Question 16

what does the form represent

Answer 16

its 4x4 stanzas reflect the confinement of London

Question 17

what era of poet was Blake

Answer 17

romantic

Question 18

what things was he against that he tried to convey in this poem

Answer 18

Child labour, sexism and general inequality

Question 19

why was the poem written

Answer 19

to show people that there was a darker side to London, supposedly the greatest city in the world at the time

Question 20

what anthology was this poem from

Answer 20

Songs of innocence and experience, most poems had their counterparts but not this one as it was to show there was only darkness in London. Or perhaps this poem shows both

Question 21

what form of writing is this which expresses an attack or critic view on something

Answer 21

Polemic

Question 22

what is Blakes problem with science

Answer 22

he believes it is taking over everything and things are losing their natural or organic nature