London - William Blake Flashcards
1
Q
I wander thro’ each charter’d street’
A
- streets are controlled
- creates overwhelming tone
- sense vulnerability
- charter’d = dirty
2
Q
‘And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe’
A
- tone of melancholy
- physical/phycological scars
- syntactic parallelism
3
Q
‘In every’ x3
A
- repetition
- anaphora
- highlights widespread nature of suffering
4
Q
‘mind-forg’d’
A
- imagery
- psychological imprisonment the population subject to from the state
- highlights widespread suffering of population
5
Q
‘black’ning Church’
A
- juxtaposition of symbolism with imagery
6
Q
‘Marriage hearse’
A
- oxymoronic
- reveals the speaker’s thoughts on marriage
