"London" - Introduction

Question 1

this poetry piece has a lot of dark imagery such as: “blackening” and “blood” and “plague”. Consider the word choice in this poem. what do these words tell you about the tone of this piece?

Answer 1

it is mournful and depressing

Question 2

tone

Answer 2

the attitude of the author towards the subject

Question 3

“i wandered through each chartered street,

Near where the chartered Thames does flow” – what is the speaker telling us about the setting of the poem

Answer 3

It is about the speaker’s walk through a street in London that is near the Thames river