Finish the quote (AO1 + 2)

Question 1

Lamb

(The Lamb)

Answer 1

-Lamb= traditionally seen as followers in need of a Shepard
-Implies that the Lamb is dependent on some greater power
-Link to institutions

Question 2

Little

(The Lamb)

Answer 2

Lamb

Question 3

Little Lamb

(The Lamb)

Answer 3

-Alliteration
-Youth, innocence + venerability

Question 4

Softest clothing

(The Lamb)

Answer 4

woolly bright

Question 5

Softest clothing woolly bright

(The Lamb)

Answer 5

-Consonants in ‘s’ th’ ‘I’ mirror purity + innocence of the lamb

Question 6

I a child and thou

(The Lamb)

Answer 6

a lamb

Question 7

I a child and thou a lamb

(The Lamb)

Answer 7

-Both created by God= no different

Question 8

Stars threw down

(The Tyger)

Answer 8

their spears

Question 9

Starts threw down their spears

(The Tyger)

Answer 9

-Personification of stars falling creates blacksmith imagery of sparks falling in workshop as work is being done
-Lucifer thrown out of heaven= could have created evil/the tyger?

Question 10

Dread grasp dare its

(The Tyger)

Answer 10

deadly terrors clasp?

Question 11

Dread grasp dare its deadly terrors clasp?

(The Tyger)

Answer 11

-Consonants ‘d’ ‘g’ ‘p’ ‘r’ + sibilance of ‘s’ creates tongue twister= reinforces complexity of creation of tyger

Question 12

Tyger tyger

In the forest

(The Tyger)

Answer 12

burning bright

of the night

Question 13

Tyger tyger burning bright

In the forest of the night

(The Tyger)

Answer 13

-Repetition, alliteration + plosives

-Forest= metaphor for London or other cities?
-Juxtaposition of bright and night= appearance of institutions vs their reality?

Question 14

In every cry of

(London)

Answer 14

every man

Question 15

In every cry of every man

(London)

Answer 15

-Repetition reinforces London as an agonising place to live- no one can escape
-Metaphorically critiques the church

Question 16

Chimney

(London)

Answer 16

sweepers cry

Question 17

Chimney sweepers cry

(London)

Answer 17

-Motif of crying carried onto next stanza- as society evolves people are still oppressed and discontent
-Link to ‘Chimney sweeper’ poem

Question 18

Black’ning church appalls

(London)

Answer 18

-Children’s blackened faces= portrays them as innocent compared to church= juxtaposition

Question 19

Hapless

(London)

Answer 19

soldier’s sigh

Question 20

Hapless soldier’s sigh

(London)

Answer 20

-Sibilance imitates the sound of sighing= sense of realism
-Ironic as he sheds blood to protect a system that keeps him in terrible conditions
-AO4 link

Question 21

Little black thing

(The Chimney-Sweeper)

Answer 21

among the snow

Question 22

Little black thing among the snow

(The Chimney-Sweeper)

Answer 22

-Juxtaposition of black + snow

Question 23

Weep

(The Chimney-Sweeper)

Answer 23

weep

Question 24

Weep weep

(The Chimney-Sweeper)

Answer 24

-Repetition
-Child should be saying sweep sweep= reflects the pain the child= experiencing

Question 25

Where are thy father (The Chimney-Sweeper)

Answer 25

and mother? Say!

Question 26

Where are thy father and mother? Say! (The Chimney-Sweeper)

Answer 26

-Symbolic of Blake's critique of the elite abandoning their responsibilities to look after its citizens like parents failing to look after their children -Exclamation mark reinforces poem as form of protest

Question 27

In the clothes (The Chimney-Sweeper)

Answer 27

of death

Question 28

In the clothes of death (The Chimney-Sweeper)

Answer 28

-Children covered in soot -Many would often fall to their deaths / develop fatal diseases due to harsh conditions of chimney sweeping

Question 29

Heaven of (The Chimney-Sweeper)

Answer 29

our misery

Question 30

Heaven of our misery (The Chimney-Sweeper)

Answer 30

-Oxymoron -Sweepers told their service would be rewarded through access to heaven but it's ultimately death