london Flashcards
in every infant’s…
…cry of fear
mind-forged…
manacles
how the chimney sweepers cry…
…every black’ning church appalls
how the youthful…
…harlots curse
blasts the newborn infants
…tear ( ) with plagues the marriage hearse
poems theme?
mans lack of freedom
setting impacting negatively
city of london plaguing the innocent
who wrote london?
william blake
structure of poem?
first person
(makes it personal)
quatrain
repetition
marks of weakness…
…marks of woe
expand on “every infants cry of fear”
not a typical cry its a cry of terror
even babies are scared of whats going on but they dont understand whats going on
expand on “every blackening church appalls”
the church betraying the innocent children “blackening” literally turning black from pollution, metaphorically turning evil
child labour
expand on “plagues the marraige hearse”
oxymoron!!
new start (infant) being cut short by society
london isnt the problem people are
expand on “mind forged manacles”
“manacles” like handcuffs. he is trapped
metaphor
