london

Question 1

LONDON
context (what kind of poet)

Answer 1

Romantic poet - believed nature was awe inspiring. he was anti establishment

Question 2

LONDON
context (poetry collections)

Answer 2

“songs of innocence” and “songs of experience” belonged to songs of experience which laments the loss of innocence in the face of corruption

Question 3

LONDON
“mind forged manacles” (semantic field of oppression)

Answer 3

their oppression is so deep it has formed these “manacles” around individuals minds, thus they are confined to the misery that the authorities have imprission them too

Question 4

LONDON
“mind forged manacles” (symbolism)

Answer 4

“manacles” are made of metal bands intertwined together mimicking how the people in london are inextricably intertwined with their misery and oppression - the “manacles” are inescapable as they are “mind-forged” making them impossible to physically escape

Question 5

LONDON
“in every infants cry of fear” (anaphora)

Answer 5

mimics the cyclical and sempiternal torturing the citizens in london are subject to - in every crevice of london there is mass suffering, the “infants” not being exempt from this

Question 6

LONDON
“in every infants cry of fear” (oxymoron)

Answer 6

“infant” and “fear”. these juxtaposing images shows how the innocence of youth has been corrupted and stolen as they have been corrupted and stolen as they have already been tainted by this exploitive setting

Question 7

LONDON
form (quatrains and ABAB rhyme)

Answer 7

stanzas with four lines paired with a regular ABAB rhyme to emulate the mass oppression and restriction the lower classes were subject to

Question 8

LONDON
(iambic tetrameter)

Answer 8

consistent iambic tetrameter heightens the motif of oppression that permeates the poem there is no freedom to escape this control
blake provides a glimmer of hope when he breaks the iambic tetrameter on “marks of weakness mark of woe” he could be implying there is hope to break free from this oppression if london was to be united against the establishments that controlled them

Question 9

LONDON
poems to link to

Answer 9

my last duchess - oppression on an individuals identity by higher power, memories tainted by the speakers perception
ozymandias - oppression of people by a leader/ leaders