London

• Give me a summary of London

  The speaker walks through the streets of London; he is saddened/disgusted by what he sees
• ’ marks of weakness, marks of woe ‘
• ‘ mind-forged manacles ’
• ‘ black’ning church appalls ’
• ‘ hapless soldier’s sigh ‘
• ‘ blood down palace walls ‘
• ‘ youthfull harlots curse ‘
• ’ Marriage hearse ‘
• ‘ chartered Thames does flow ‘
• ‘ every face ‘
• What does the quote ‘ every face ‘ suggest?

  All people are affected negatively
• What does chartered mean?

  Regulated/controlled
• What does the juxtaposition in the quote ‘ chartered Thames does flow ‘ suggest?

  Nature is more powerful than man’s attempt to control it
• What does the anaphora using the word ‘ in ’ Suggest?

  Suffering has become inescapable
• What does the word ‘ mark ‘ connote within the line ‘ marks of weakness, marks of woe ‘?


  Branded, they don’t just look woeful they have physically changed by it
• What does the quote ‘ black’ning church appals ‘ suggest?

  The church is corrupt, it doesn’t provide the aid it offers
• What does the quote ‘mind forged manacles suggest‘?

  mental slavery, created by hard work of society and hard to break out of
• What does the quote ‘ youthfull harlots curse ‘ suggest?

  A prostitute with no other choice, continuing to have children
• What language device is used in the quote ‘marriage hearse‘?

  Oxymoron
• What does the quote ‘ blood down palace walls‘ suggest?

  Blood of soldiers is on hands of those in power
• Whats the acrostic in the poem?

  HEAR