London

Question 1

Unusual language

Answer 1

“Chartered” - this word is repeated a lot. What the poet is trying to get across is the fact that people in London own nothing at all and that they couldn’t live their lives properly.

“Blackening church appalls”- this phrase is stating that the catholic church is corrupt and full of evil

“Marriage herse”- Blake uses a oxymoron to show that good things like marriage is ruined and killed

Question 2

Structural point

Answer 2

The use of the iambic pentameter shows how how William Blake is uni-formed and controlled implying the lack of freedom and being controlled by people with higher authority

Question 3

Context link

Answer 3

Blake had walked through London and wrote a poem to exemplify how bad London was and how it needed to change drastically as of the conditions of the City