London Quotes + Context

Question 1

What did William Blake reject?

Answer 1

The establishment: Church, Government and Monarchy

Question 2

What is Blake criticising in ‘London’

Answer 2

London

Question 3

What age was Blake writing in?

Answer 3

Romantic Age

Question 4

How did people and Blake at the time feel about society ?

Answer 4

It was a prison

Question 5

What other job did Blake do?

Answer 5

Painter

Question 6

What were poets at Blake’s time inspired by?

Answer 6

French Revolution in 1789

Question 7

What quote suggests that life means death and the symbol of love is also death in London?

Answer 7

And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

Question 8

What quote suggests that religion is corrupt in London?

Answer 8

Every black’ning Church appals

Question 9

What quote suggests how the monarchy is to blame for wasted lives at war in Londno?

Answer 9

Runs in blood down Palace walls

Question 10

What quote suggests that the city or life itself is a prison in London?

Answer 10

The mind-forg’d manacles I hear

Question 11

What quote suggest there are signs of misery in London?

Answer 11

Marks of weakness marks of woe

Question 12

What quote shows the poem is in the first person and the streets are not his in London?

Answer 12

I wander thro’ each charter’d street

Question 13

What quote suggests the circle of life and immediate misery?

Answer 13

blasts the new born infant’s tear