London Flashcards

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Context

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  • Industrial Revolution
  • children working
  • prostitution and syphilis
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First line of poem shows aimlessness — powerless? And mapped out which introduces idea of restriction

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“I wander thro each charterd street”

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Imagine of river juxtaposition to the charterd streets shows something is wrong

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“Thames does flow”

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4
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Quote that’s had double meaning of curse/ rule against. Shows duality of London

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In every ban

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Two quotes abt sounds in the poem one abt child labor

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“Chimney sweepers cry”
“Hapless soldiers sigh”

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Description of of church shows pollution and literal sense of impure evil

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“Every blackening church appalls”

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7
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Structure of the poem

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Waking through London to create a sense of the place

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Author

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William Blake

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