London

Question 1

What is London about?

Answer 1

• Protest against the widespread suffering of the poor, blaming institutions such as the church, monarchy and government
• Criticising a society that causes poverty, prostitution and war

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

• lived in London
• inspired by the French Revolution to call for wide social change
• Romantic Poet

Question 3

How is society presented?

Answer 3

• explores how tyrannical rules can exploit the vulnerable in society and suggest that such exploitation is deeply ingrained in the power structure of their societies
• a powerful critique of hierarchies and innately unjust societies. Blake’s poem exposes the systemic oppression in London’s social order, where the powerful exploit the vulnerable,
• hellish place where the poor suffer intensely

Question 4

Who wrote it?

Answer 4

William Blake