London

• London


  In every infants cry of fear,

  In every voice ,in every ban,

  The mind-forged manacles I hear.
• London

  How the chimney-sweeper’s cry

  Every black’ning church appals,
• London


  And how the hapless soldier‘s sigh

  Runs in blood down palace walls.
• London


  How the youthful harlot’s curse

  Blasts the new-born infant’s tear,

  And blights with plagues the marriage hearse
• London


  I wander through each charted street,

  Near where thee chartered Thames does flow,
• What is the poem about- London

  Narrator is describing a walk around London. Wherever he goes, he meets people affected by misery and despair.This misery seems relentless in which the young and innocent cannot escape. People in power seem to be behind the problems and do nothing to help.
• Form of London


  Dramatic Mononlogue- 1st person narrator speakers passionately personally about the suffering he sees. Regular rhythm reflects the sound of his feet as he trudges around
• Structure of London


  Writer presents relentless images of downtrodden,deprive people.First 2 stanzas focus on peoples and what he hears and sees. Third stanza is about institutions.Final stanza returns to people and how even new born are affected
• Rhetoric of London


  Used to persuade you his POV- by his use of emotive,powerful words to reinforce the horror. Also used to emphasise the number of people affected and shows how society needs to change.
• Uses of senses in London


  In the stanzas:

  1st-what her sees

  2nd-what he hears

  3rd +4th- visual and aural
• Anger in London 


  Through emotive language and repetition

  Angry at people in power,’palace walls’
• Hopelessness in London


  People themselves are also to blame-they’re trapped within their own attitudes.