London

Question 1

Form

Answer 1

Dramatic monologue- first person - speaks passionately and personally about the suffering he sees

Question 2

Contrasts

Answer 2

Used to show how everything is affected and nothing pure/innocent remains - “marriage hearse”

Question 3

Use of senses

Answer 3

First stanza what he sees, second=hears, last two combine eight visual and aural

Question 4

Feelings/attitudes on poem

Answer 4

Anger - Blake uses emotive language & repitition - shows his anger at the situation - especially angry at those on power - who could do something to change but don’t

Hopelessness- “mind-forged manacles” suggest the people themselves are also to blame - they trapped in own attitudes- they are not able/trying to help themselves

Question 5

“Each chartered street”

Answer 5

Suggests whole city’s affected not one area

Question 6

“Chartered Thames”

Answer 6

Even powerful natural features are under control of humans & affected by city’s problems.

Question 7

“How the chimney-sweeper’s cry’

Answer 7

Emotive language - of child labour - chimney sweepers were usually young boys

Question 8

“Marriage hearse”

Answer 8

Oxymoron- links happy image of marriage to death - suggest everything has been destroyed

Question 9

“Black’Ning church”

Answer 9

Blake angry at all powers
-“black’ning” suggest church is corrupt
-connotations of the effects of the industrial revolution