Poetry: London(blake)

Question 1

What are the three overarching concepts?

Answer 1

• everyone is without power
• poverty/suffering (which is allowed by the rich)
• women exploitation/lack of women’s rights)

Question 2

Plan for everyone without power

Answer 2

“Every”-anaphora(all victims)

“Mind-forged manacles”-alliteration draws attention to metaphor(not held back physically but by their belief in their own weakness hold them back)

“Marks of weakness,marks of woe”-

Anaphora-“marks’
Breaks down Iambic tetrameter(how revolution can break down the eltablishment
Alliteration

Question 3

Plan for poverty?

Answer 3

Chinmey-sweepers cry every blackening church appals-juxtaposition(church condones the poverty)

Hopless soldiers sigh runs in blood down the palace walls-symbolic metaphor(blood of aristocracy)

Question 4

Plan for mistreatment/lack of womens rights?

Answer 4

“Young harriot”-slang prostitute, young-early age. Sexual exploitation

“Blighte with plagues the marriage hearse”-juxtaposes the joy of marriage with the misery of death

Question 5

Describe the strucutre of London

Answer 5

-dramatic monolouge(one person speaking from their own point of view)

Rhyme scheme ABAB-makes the whole thing very predicatable

Senses-lots of sound everywhere

Feelings:-anger at political system

• unfair(inequality)
• hopelessness

Question 6

Descibe the context?

Answer 6

Blake:

• hated religion(kept people down)
• lived in London and viewed it as dirty and corrupt
• stood against the opression of women
• supported equality
• antimonarchy