London Flashcards

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Beggining quote?

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I wander through each chartered street.

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3 middle quote

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1.The mind forgd manacles i hear.
2.Every blackening church appalls.
3.Runs in blood down Palace walls.

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Ending quote?

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And blight plagues with marriage hearse.

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What is the form of London?

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4 line stanza simple rhyiming scheme ABABAB.Childlike in its simplicity ,like a poem written for a children.Blake write this as a protest poem for a political problem.He writes it as such a simple form that even children can remember it making his political point stand and be rememmbered.

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What does Blake argure

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That social herairchy is fake and only exist as we do this to ourself
church has lost its way it own many property corrupt doesnt follow jesus and doesnt help the chimmney sweepers that are dying of soot,
Preaching the idea that society is so corrupt with the rich having so much money and power that the poor will rise up and kill them just like in the french revoluiton
he is a femenist and complaning against men who go sleep with women and then sleep with your wife your killing her and the baby,Baby is likely to have disability.Futhermore he criticises the society that creates prostitutes who are young and are being exploited.

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