London

Question 1

What is the context?

Answer 1

Lived in Victorian London, time of poverty and industrial change.
Published as part of songs of innocence and experience, to show negative aspects of life.

Question 2

What is the form/structure?

Answer 2

4 line 4 stanzas shows order. repetition of words like charter’d and in every shows cycle of poverty and no escape
starts off as observations, angry tone gradually grows and eventually talks about death, blaming institutions set up to help

Question 3

What key quotes do you need to remember?[8]

Answer 3

'Near where the charter'd Thames does flow'
'Marks of weakness, marks of woe'
'Ban, Fear, Manacles'
'Black'ning church'
'blood down palace walls'
'marriage hearse'