London by blake williams

• 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