London

Question 1

What themes are in london?

Answer 1

Power of humans
Loss and absence
Anger
Individual experience

Question 2

What quotes show the power of humans ?

Answer 2

‘Mind forged manacles’ alliteration , presente people as being tied down by what they believe not what is actual reality. They have the power to break the manacles , they just need their minds to change.

‘In every cry of every man, in every infants cry of fear, in every voice’ the repetition shows how power of rich elites who have caused ‘every ‘ person to live in poverty

‘Chartered’ repetition shows that everything is being bought , every thing is now for money even the roads they walk on. People are not free as everything has been bought

Question 3

Quotes to show loss and absence?

Answer 3

‘Chartered’repition shows the absence of freedom

‘Chimney sweepers cry every Blackening church appals’ chiney sweepers who are literally black are shown as pure where as the church is shown as black , being corrupt . Religion is a tool to keep people down . Religion is absent when it is needed.

Question 4

Quotes to show anger?

Answer 4

‘Hapless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls’ shows injustice as soldiers are dying for people in palaces, the soldiers are ‘sighing’ they have had enough

‘Marriage hearse’ is an oxymoron to show the joy of marriage with the misery of death. It represents london that although it is famous and seems nice on the outside, in reality it is not .

Question 5

Who wrote ozymandias?

Answer 5

William blake

Question 6

What does the poem reflect?

Answer 6

Blakes views about the effect of the industrial revolution on england.

Question 7

How is ozymandias structured and how is form?

Answer 7

• negative language throughout
• repetition is used relentlessly to drive home the constant bleakness of blakes message-and uses readers feel angry
• the repetitive metre reflects the idea that peoples life is monotonous