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London by blake williams
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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