Place Quotes

Question 1

London

Answer 1

Blake presents London as a place full of suffering and restriction, using language that creates a sense of hopelessness. For example, the repetition of “charter’d” in “charter’d streets” and “charter’d Thames” emphasises the tight control and ownership over every part of the city — even the natural river.
The metaphor “mind-forg’d manacles” is powerful in showing how people are psychologically trapped by society, almost as if they are chained by their own thoughts and fears

Question 2

Living Space

Answer 2

She describes a slum in Mumbai where buildings are “not enough straight lines,” and where people live in precarious and unsafe structures
Dharker draws attention to the bravery and faith of the people living there. The image of a “bright, thin wall” and a “nail in the wall” holding up the structure could symbolise fragility, but also determination.
the image of the “white egg” placed “in a wire basket” becomes a powerful metaphor for hope and potential in the middle of chaos