London by blake williams

Cards (23)

  • Oppression- a person of power in authority treating others cruelty
  • Apococalyptic- vision of what is going to happen to humanity. Damanation and hell
  • French revolution- violent revolution, poor people cut of the monarchs head in the hopes of gaining social chanhe
  • Industrial revolution the inventation of factories and humanity being crushed by machines as progress and wealth is more valuable then human life
  • power- blake highlights the weakness and suffering of the opressed and down trodden londen poor
  • Blakes radicalism - extremism or progressive political visws wants to get complete social and political change
  • Blake was a paintwr who painted his religious visions
  • I wander - the writer is free
  • chater’d street- owned by powerfull peoppe
  • “Charter’d thames does flow’ nature is supposed to be free and flowing but its controlled by rich people. Juxtaposistion
  • Marks of weakness, marks of woe. Two are linked together they are victems but they have accepted their fate
  • Repetetion of every suggests the density of relentless suffering
  • Affects of aliteration- links the two words together
  • Mind forged manacles i hear- revolutionary metaphore trapped bu their own mentality
  • “Blasts the new born infants tear
    and blights with plagues the marriage hearse” plosive alliteration - violent and fluidy is interupted
  • “youthfull harlots curse”
  • “runs in blood down palace walls.”
  • Cross profile- imagenary slice across a river channel and its valley at a particular point
  • Uplands- v shape and shallow with large loads of material
  • the rich abuse their role in power
  • blake uses regimented and controlled four line stanzas to reflect the constricted places on the people of london
  • the tight rhyme scheme abab cdcd shows the lack of freedom for the people in the poem
  • the return to the d rhyme shows the cylical structure of ongoing cycle of inequality