Karteikarten
London
Karten in diesem Stapel (7)
- 1"Mind forg'd manacles "Even people's minds are controlled by their own minds
- 2"Chimney sweepers cry"This is making us aware of the child's labour and how sad it is to work.
- 3"Harlot's curse and marriage hearse"marriage hearse is an oxymoron.
- 4"Every blackening church appals"Blake had lost his religion as the church would not help the suffering
children- inequality. - 5Marriage hearse- prostitutes passed on STIs which "plagued"(ruined) marriage.Harlot's curse- symbolic of her life she is cursed, no choice but to suffer.
- 6London is built child labour and the poverty of workers.Ideas and imagery.
- 7Conflict- Industrial Revolution there is power and status but underneath there is poverty and despairPoet and background
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- Beschreibung
- Blake writes this poem to describe how London was in the old days.
- Erstellt von
- Benjamin Jones
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