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London and The Émigrée Flashcards

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Comparison 1

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Both poets explore the power of place.

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Comparison 2

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Both poems explore how human power is destructive.

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Comparison 3

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Both poems explore how place can impact your perception.

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London 1

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However, in London, Blake demonises the city in order to expose the problems of the city.

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The Émigrée 1

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In contrast, in The Emigree, the speaker romanticises her country, focusing on the memories she has of it.

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London 2

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In London, the abuse of power by institutions (such as the church, government, and monarchy) is explored, as well as the societal problems that are caused by this.

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The Émigrée 2

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Contrastingly, in The Emigree, the speaker recalls the damage conflict has done to her home and the effects of tyrannical rule.

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London 3

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In London, Blake feels that the lower-class people believe they are unable to break the cycle of oppression and the poem ends on a tone of hopelessness.

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The Émigrée 3

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However, in The Emigree, her sense of identity remains with her home, regardless of her position there, the poem is ends on a tone of hope which has been maintained throughout the poem.

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The Émigrée 1 - Quotes

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“my memory of it is sunlight-clear”
“bright filled paperweight”
“my city takes me dancing”

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The Émigrée 2 - Quotes

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“sick with tyrants”
“branded by an impression of sunlight”
“i have no passport”

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The Émigrée 3 - Quotes

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“I comb its hair and love its shining eyes”

“my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”

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London 1 - Quotes

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“youthful harlots curse”
“blasts the new-born infant’s tear”
“in every cry of every man”

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London 2 - Quotes

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“every blackening church appals”
“runs in blood down palace walls”
“mark in every face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe.”

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London 3 - Quotes

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“mind forge manacles I hear”

“marriage hearse”

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“my memory of it is sunlight-clear”

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  • immediately associates happiness with place
  • symbolise hope, optimism
  • jxt “November”
  • late autumn, cn cold/darkness
  • acknowledges that her city going through difficult time
  • November = month, will pass, shows optimism that conflict will too pass
  • alt. little sunlight in Nov, trying to block out neg. details?
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“bright filled paperweight”

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-metaphor
“paperweight” cn permanence + stability, holds weightless/fragile things together
-memories fixed in place, will never leave her
-refuses to let go of memories
-perhaps believes only thing keeping country together
-glass fragile - memories precious to her

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“my city takes me dancing”

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“my” - personal pronoun, takes personal comfort in reflecting on her home city
“dancing” - element of magic/freedom (unlike other poem) in the city which emphasises her romanticised view

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“sick with tyrants”

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  • personification
  • abuse of power as an illness, like London
  • city vulnerable/innocent
  • potential for cure? illness temp?
  • semantic field of warfare demonstrates war torn reality + tyranny in home country ​
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“branded by an impression of sunlight”

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-metaphor
“branded” - eternally marked, cannot escape
-violent verb that carries connotations of permanence and ownership - may reflect permanent tyrannical rule in country
-memory holds the power here – her view is unchangeable as unlike London she chooses to remember only the positive aspects emphasising her engrained view
“sunlight” - cn warmth/comfort that is brought from remembering city
-also blindness - again ignores how corrupt the country is, perhaps in the hope that it’d one day return to normal

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“i have no passport”

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“passport” - demonstrates pain inflicted by man-made borders as without a passport a person will face restrictions
-passport proof of identity, she feels her city, part of her identity, was stripped away from her as a result of the conflict

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“I comb its hair and love its shining eyes”

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  • jxt semantic field of warfare
  • personifies the country as something vulnerable like a child
  • ignores current suffering for the more favourable view narratir had as a child as she seem to attempt to protect it
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“my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”

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  • jxt no shadow without light – symbolism of hope and positivity
  • ends on sunlight - circularity
  • opinion of homeland will always be positive, no matter what “darkness” there may be
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“youthful harlots curse”

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-oxymoron, youthful jxt harlot
- in this oxymoron, Blake corrupts the idea of childbirth with sexual exploitation and hate
“youthful”- cn innocence - innocence stripped away by the corruption of soceity, forced to turn to prostitution, desperate for money just to survive
“curse” - plural cn
1- swearing - loss of innocence
2- anger/frustration - inability ti get out of poverty/anger towards the men that exploit her
3- “cursed” to a lifestyle of extreme poverty, further supported by “new born infants tear”

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“blasts the new-born infant’s tear”

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  • infant born into a broken world to a mother who resents their existence
  • soceity corrupts everything from the moment it enters the world
  • Blake view poverty a malicious never ending cycle, and must do something abt it
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“in every cry of every man”

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  • anaphora “every” highlights univeral impact of oppression
  • emphasises the unanimous feeling of despair - it affects everyone and is everywhere; there is no escape.
  • rep of “cry” - London torturous and agonising place to live
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“every blackening church appals”

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  • metaphor
  • could refer to literal “blackening” from soot
  • creates images of rotting+decay, which jxt pure/holy cn of a church
  • highlights how widespread corruption is as it has seemingly taken over everything, including religion
  • church has become an oppressive force that has turned its back on the destitute, rather than supporting them
  • Blake suggests church+rest of authority do not deserve the power they hold and abuse
  • appals - anger/frustration that theinfection of corruption has spread to even the most sacred of places
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“runs in blood down palace walls”

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  • metaphorical presence of soldiers’ blood on palace walls suggests palace owes existence to soldiers’ bodily sacrifice—building literally constructed by their death as it is part of the wall
  • Blake criticises how authority gain power from the corruption and ignorance of the wc
  • alt could allude to fr revolution, in which the working class overthrew the monarchy
  • Blake avid supporter of fr rev
  • monarchy+those in control are to blame for suffering, blake believes there should be a revolution here and soldiers will die defending the monarchy despite its corruption
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“mark in every face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe.”

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“mark” - permanent, permanence of situation

  • describes metaphorical scars (or perhaps physical) left by controlling oppressive system
  • smf of suffering, rep emphasises sheer number of oppressed and condemned to life of suffering
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“mind forged manacles I hear”

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"manacles" - heavy chains, unable to move, restricted and unable to do anything about their current situation
-metaphorically chained to the bottom of the class system
"mindforged" - the restrictions are self imposed
-Blake belief that the society constantly restrained themselves and their ideologies and if they just did something about the situation, eg revolution, they would be able to achieve the change that Blake was so passionate about
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“marriage hearse”

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-oxymoron, links the happy image of marriage with misery of death
I-overwhelmingly negative image suggesting that everything good has been destroyed
-powerful ending to poem criticising those in positions of power: government, monarchy, Church, landowners
-marriage cn new beginning and hope, yet the hears depict death vehicle - future will bring only power corruption and lies
-no hope for repair, believes that the cycle of corruption will continue endlessly

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