London by William Blake

Question 1

Summery

Answer 1

• it describes about a walk through the street of London.
• The main themes in “London” are the fallen world, political tensions, and social woes.
• It describes about how London was meant to seen by the world and how the reality is.

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

• London was published in in 1794
• William Blake is a English poet and a artiest.
• he held social and political view at that time.

Question 3

“In every voice: in every ban”.

Answer 3

*is the repetition/Assonance of vowel sounds in the same line.

Question 4

Intention

Answer 4

The intention of the writer is to show how everything is effected and nothing pure and innocents remains.

Question 5

Theme

Answer 5

• anger- Emotive language and repetition show the narrator’s anger at the situation.
  < he mentioned “ every blackening church” and “place wall”, suggests he specially angry at the people in power, who could do something to change things, but they are doing nothing.

*hopeless- the “mind- forged manacles” shows that the people themselves are also to blame, because they are not trying to help themselves, but they are just believing that this is their faith.

Question 6

techniques

Answer 6

Repetition: “ mark in weakness, mark in woe” - emphasises feeling of blankness, despair affects everyone and there’s no relief from it.

oxymoron: “ marriage hearse” - links the happy image of marriage with death. suggest that everything has been destroyed.

Question 7

structure