place in Living space and London Plan Flashcards
How do LS and London similarly present place?
They both discuss the precarious nature of poor spaces and how it’s close to collapse.
Quotes for precarious nature in LS
-‘Leans dangerously’
‘Someone has squeezed a living space’
‘not enough straight lines’
‘rough frame’
Quotes for Precarious nature in London
-‘In every cry’
-‘In every voice’
-‘In every ban’
(Victims of society).
-Runs in blood down palace walls’
How do Living space and London present place differently?
-LS demonstrates hope, whereas in London there is a sense of bleakness and lack of optimism for the future.
Quotes for hope in Living space
-‘The bright thin walls of faith’
-‘Eggs in a wire basket’
‘Hung out over the dark edge of a slanted universe.’ (White eggs contrasting with dark universe, hope in a hopeless situation)
Quotes for lack of hope in the future in London.
-‘The mind-forg’d manacles I hear’ - metaphor of entrapment
-‘Blights with plagues the Marriage hearse’. - London is diseased with poverty and prostitution.
How is weakness presented in LS and London
Weakness in LS is presented through the weakness of infrastructure and buildings
London is about the weakness of people as a result of poverty.
Structure in LS
-Enjambment to reflect the idea of tight spaces, ‘Someone has squeezed a living space’
Structure in London
-Consistent four-line stanzas with a constant ABAB rhyme scheme. Written in Iambic Tetrameter (A rigid scheme) which could echo the never ending suffering in London.
Context in London
-Syphilis is a huge problem in London at the time of poem written (victorian)
-The capital city of arguable the most important country in the world at that time, presented as corrupt.
Context in Living Space
Industrialisation in both England and India - 200 years apart.
-Mumbai is undergoing urban poverty
-Dharker born in Pakistan but raised in Scotland, represents different cultures and her poem can be read universally.
