Second Stabza

Question 1

First sentence

Answer 1

The second stanza serves to emphasise further the suffering and hopelessness of mankind

Question 2

Repetition of ‘every’

Answer 2

Repeated 5 times
- no one is immune from such destruction and imprisonment - reader caught up in the action through constant references to sound which make escape that much more difficult

Question 3

As a result,

Answer 3

Reader is made to endure and participate in the action instead of passively observing it

Question 4

The phrase ‘in every ban’ references

Answer 4

Excommunication by the church which shows how the church, a persons only sanctuary is removed from them

Question 5

This establishes a sense of

Answer 5

Isolation among society which could also be regarded as a metaphor for corruption and criticism of the institutionalised world (capitalism)

Question 6

Blake states

Answer 6

‘The mind-forged manacles I hear’ which suggests people are forced to create their own fear, prompted by the harsh capitalist authority which terrifies them into committing to intensive hard labour to benefit the wealthy’s industrial business boom

Question 7

The phrase ‘I hear’, the

Answer 7

‘I’ figure after no intervention from the narrator throughout the stanza serve to emphasise the shock and overwhelmed response to such human suffering where people cannot find words to react what is happening around them

Question 8

Intrinsically, the quote could

Answer 8

Also be seen to represent the typical Marxist view that the working classes were unable to rise up against the bourgeoise in the corrupted capitalist society as they felt incapable in contrast to the sheer force and power capitalism represents