London

Question 1

context

Answer 1

• blake criticised the church’s lack of intervention in the injustices in society e.g. child exploitation
• romantic poet

Question 2

• unnatural imposition of humanity on nature

Answer 2

chartered Thames

Question 3

• opening line
• aimlessness/purposeless
• confusion
• wish to be free, but in a controlled environment
• illusion of freedom

Answer 3

I wander through each chartered street

Question 4

• falling meter: loss of hope
• ubiquity of suffering
• repetition

Answer 4

And mark in every face I meet / marks of weakness, marks of woe

Question 5

• anaphora
• innocence vs emotionally tainted

Answer 5

In every cry of every man / in every infant’s cry of fear / in every voice, in every ban

Question 6

• self oppression

Answer 6

mind forged manacles

Question 7

• contrasts traditional connotations
• powerful institutions

Answer 7

black’ning church

Question 8

• synaethesia
• french revolution

Answer 8

Runs in blood down palace walls

Question 9

• bound/married to death and illness / suffering
• society’s disfunction is an illness

Answer 9

Blights with plagues the marriage hearse

Question 10

form and structure

Answer 10

• quatrains : imposed rigid structure
• regular ABAB rhyme scheme: conformity
• stanza 3 spells ‘HEAR’ : attempt to reject institutional oppression, not free to do so