London Flashcards
1
Q
Who was the author of London?
A
William Blake
2
Q
What is the context of London?
A
-Published as part of the ‘songs of innocence and experience, focussing on the more negative aspects of life.
-Blake lived and worked in London during the victorian era, a time of great poverty and change.
3
Q
What does the structure suggest?
A
-Lots of repetition may suggest and endless cycle of poverty and the lower social classes.
4
Q
Poems to link to?
A
Living space for living conditions welfare.
Hawk roosting and ozymandias for power and control
5
Q
‘I wander thro’
A
Shows the poem is structured by a journey
6
Q
Repetition of ‘charter’d’
A
