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Description
Mind Map by Heather Crosby, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Heather Crosby
about 8 years ago
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London - William Blake
- Vocabulary
- Chartered -
plotted or
mapped,
unemotional
scientific process
- Woe - sadness
- Manacles - leg irons
- Appalls -
rejections,
Church is not
helping people
- Hapless - abandoned
- Harlot - prostitute
- Blights - overshadows
- Chartered -
plotted or
mapped,
unemotional
scientific process
- Poetic techniques
- ABAB rhyme scheme -
regular pattern, suggests
link between 2 disjointed
sections of soeciety
- Metaphor
- Regular rhythm - 8 beats,
a measured view, not
ranting, only facts
- Repetition
- Oxymoron
- marriage
hearse
- ABAB rhyme scheme -
regular pattern, suggests
link between 2 disjointed
sections of soeciety
- Poet and Background
- Blake had lost his religion
as the Church would not
help suffering children -
inequality
- Frequent
themes -
poverty &
homelessness
- French Revolution
- Industrial Revolution
- Blake was
horrified at what
was happening to
'his' London
- Conflict - Industrial
Revolution, there is
power and status but
underneath there is
poverty and despair
- Blake had lost his religion
as the Church would not
help suffering children -
inequality
- Ideas and Imagery
- On the
surface
London is
pleasant.
calm etc
- Every man etc. -
they all have a
terrible life
- Mind-forged
manacles -
freedom of
thought taken
away, no opinions
- Ban - imposed by those
in power, restricting the
poor
- Black'ning Church -
the Church is pure,
not helping people
- Harlot's curse -
symbolic of her
life she is cursed,
not choice but to
suffer
- Blood down palace
walls - a stain on
the institution,
reference the
French Revolution
- Marriage hearse -
prostitutes passed on
STIs which 'plagued'
(ruined) marriage
- Chimney sweep -
represents child
labour
- People in the city
are not benefiting
from the Industrial
Revolution
- London is built on child
labour and the poverty
of workers
- Is this a
vision of
London
today?
- On the
surface
London is
pleasant.
calm etc
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