London Flashcards
1
Q
“marks of ______, marks of ____”
A
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
2
Q
“in every ____ of _____ ___”
A
“in every cry of every man”
3
Q
“mind-_______ manacles”
A
‘mind-forged manacles”
4
Q
“midnight _____ i ____”
A
“midnight streets i hear”
5
Q
Structure?
A
-Cyclical structure - suffering is never ending and people will keep suffering until they rebel against authority
-consistent use of Iambic Tetrameter - shows order and control
-Quatrains use a regular rhyme scheme which could represent the speaker walking and the relentlessness of it
6
Q
Context?
A
-Blake rejected organised religion and the established Church - he viewed it as corrupt and hypocritical
-London at the time was full of poverty and disease
-Romantic poet and did not like Industrialisation
