Time And Place

Time And Place

London
1. William Blake
  1. Writing about the conditions that people who lived in London faced.
    1. Written in 1794
  2. Was a poet and artist who specilised in illuminated texts, often a religious nature. He rejected established religion for various reasons. One was the falure of the established church to help children in London who were forced to work.
  3. He used to live in London so when he says 'I' it is refering to him.
2. Charter'd Thames
  1. This shows the way in which every aspect of life in london is owned even the river. Also shows the symbol of freedom and power of nature.
    1. contrast between power of nature and power of man
  2. the second use of this word can be see as a satirical attack on the obessesion with property rights and human power and having control
    1. ironic as the river cannot really be controlled by people
3. The First paragraph: means ' I walk through the streets of London and every face that I meet shows signs of weakness and woe'
4. Second paragraph: means ' every sound I hear in every voice I realise the people are trapped 9 mentally and physically)
  1. Focus on the people that are suffering.
5. Poem is full of negative words.
6. Third Paragraph: 'the distress of the people ruins this place'
  1. EXplores the causes of the suffering.
7. Fourth paragrapgh: ' what i hear mostly through the night is young prostitues swearing' ruins the innocece of newly born babies. Makes something that should be good bad.
  1. Focus of the people who are suffering.
8. Structure
  1. Repetetive Rhyme scheme is A,B,A,B
  2. Repetetive structure , written in Quatrains which is 4 lines in each stanza.
    1. Repetetivness of rhyme scheme and structue represents the repetetive overwhelming suffering.
  3. Repetition of the words. 'Charter'd'
  4. From relating the last stanza to the first two it shows repetetivness and a cyclical structure.
    1. This represents the people and when they just think its the end they are where they started again.
  5. Each line contains 8 sylabuls
    1. Except for ' marks of weakness, marks of woe' it contains 7 sylabuls. The weak sylabul count shows the weakness of the people in London.
9. Language
  1. 'and mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe'
    1. repitition of the work 'mark' shows the importance of it
    2. the changing meaning of the word mark could represent the writers fustration at the changing nature of london
  2. the repitition of the word ,every in stanza 3
  3. 'mind forged manacles'
    1. viewed with horror at the time as they where used on criminals
    2. metaphorical handcuffs- no freedom
To Autumn
1. images of growth/richness/weight
  1. 'load' 'bend' 'plump' 'fill'.
    1. get a sense of how rich autum is and the harvest they well have
  2. weight/richness everywhere. From core to explosion of growth
    1. 'bees' 'fill' 'apples' 'cottage' 'clammy' the writer has used words containing double consonants as it creates a soothing tone
      1. allow the reader to pause on certain words makes the reader feel comftable get the impression of the beauty of the season
2. personification- harmony between seasons idea of autum conspiring with the sun
3. cyclical- summer needs the nuts and seeds it produces
  1. third stanza shows contast between seasons but shows the beauty in each one
    1. the idea of the river moving and the light wind represents movement and sleepy, relaxed energy
    2. as if season is coming to a close
4. second stanza can be represented as the harvisting stanza
  1. personification as autum is often reffered to as a women
    1. idea of hair being soft
    2. asking autum rhetorical questions
  2. idea of being relaxed all the hard work is over
    1. sleepy and drowsy
5. ABAB CDEDCCE rhyme pattern
  1. iamic pentameter first four lines set up theme of stanza, seven subsequent lines elaborate

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