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London was the greatest city in the world, but women had no rights, there was poverty, child labour and war with France (Napoleon) GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Poem doesn't have a counterpart isongs of innoncence + *dramatic monologue experience) KABAB rhyme scheme echoes relentless misery of city *repetition suggest that misery is cyclical to od stalpios Revointionary (1757-1827) was born in 1757, disliked organised religion, lived in London whole London 1 'every' nominis free William Blake ww lose and people are Purposeless being boug bought I wander through each chartered street, Repetition of chartered, every Street is controlled - even thames is affected - Nature is controlled Near where the chartered Thames does flow, contrast - Control + flow And mark in every face I meet repetition of mark, everyone feels bleak Marks of weakness, marks of woe. lliteration ties weakness & woe *low syuabble connt-bleak line together In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, bons are common In every voice, in every ban, 10 Every black'ning church appalls, blackened / corrupt Church is spiritually and morally And the hapless soldier's sigh Soldiers tive of the country they fought for Runs in blood down palace walls. reference to French Revolution. ordinary people are exposed whilst rich are safe behind walls-people sacrifice themselves But most through midnight streets I hear focus on sound people are caged by their own way of The mind-forged manacles I hear: thinking - unable to...
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Alternative transcript:
think for themselves condoners complicit emotive description of child labour How the chimney-sweeper's cry How the youthful harlot's curse contrast -innocence + prostitution 15 Blasts the new-born infant's tear, Cursing babies- nothing stays innocent for long And blights with plagues the marriage hearse. oxymoron link marriage with death-society has rnined it Plosive alliteration- babies losing innocence * critique of human power * quatrains look organised, but are very chaotic when you look closer, like London * problems are caused by those in power. *written in iambic tetrameter (8 sylabbies) 'mark'. - The rich mark the poorer as their own by keeping them weak * Blake saw religion as * * use of juxtaposition shows that even happiness is tainted. oppression * appoll' covering for a coffin * plagne suggests that misery is Spreading 41 aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 27 States
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Annotation from class, personal interpretations and Mr Bruff YouTube videos.
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Annotation from class, personal interpretations and Mr Bruff YouTube videos.
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London was the greatest city in the world, but women had no rights, there was poverty, child labour and war with France (Napoleon) GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Poem doesn't have a counterpart isongs of innoncence + *dramatic monologue experience) KABAB rhyme scheme echoes relentless misery of city *repetition suggest that misery is cyclical to od stalpios Revointionary (1757-1827) was born in 1757, disliked organised religion, lived in London whole London 1 'every' nominis free William Blake ww lose and people are Purposeless being boug bought I wander through each chartered street, Repetition of chartered, every Street is controlled - even thames is affected - Nature is controlled Near where the chartered Thames does flow, contrast - Control + flow And mark in every face I meet repetition of mark, everyone feels bleak Marks of weakness, marks of woe. lliteration ties weakness & woe *low syuabble connt-bleak line together In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, bons are common In every voice, in every ban, 10 Every black'ning church appalls, blackened / corrupt Church is spiritually and morally And the hapless soldier's sigh Soldiers tive of the country they fought for Runs in blood down palace walls. reference to French Revolution. ordinary people are exposed whilst rich are safe behind walls-people sacrifice themselves But most through midnight streets I hear focus on sound people are caged by their own way of The mind-forged manacles I hear: thinking - unable to...
London was the greatest city in the world, but women had no rights, there was poverty, child labour and war with France (Napoleon) GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Poem doesn't have a counterpart isongs of innoncence + *dramatic monologue experience) KABAB rhyme scheme echoes relentless misery of city *repetition suggest that misery is cyclical to od stalpios Revointionary (1757-1827) was born in 1757, disliked organised religion, lived in London whole London 1 'every' nominis free William Blake ww lose and people are Purposeless being boug bought I wander through each chartered street, Repetition of chartered, every Street is controlled - even thames is affected - Nature is controlled Near where the chartered Thames does flow, contrast - Control + flow And mark in every face I meet repetition of mark, everyone feels bleak Marks of weakness, marks of woe. lliteration ties weakness & woe *low syuabble connt-bleak line together In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, bons are common In every voice, in every ban, 10 Every black'ning church appalls, blackened / corrupt Church is spiritually and morally And the hapless soldier's sigh Soldiers tive of the country they fought for Runs in blood down palace walls. reference to French Revolution. ordinary people are exposed whilst rich are safe behind walls-people sacrifice themselves But most through midnight streets I hear focus on sound people are caged by their own way of The mind-forged manacles I hear: thinking - unable to...
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think for themselves condoners complicit emotive description of child labour How the chimney-sweeper's cry How the youthful harlot's curse contrast -innocence + prostitution 15 Blasts the new-born infant's tear, Cursing babies- nothing stays innocent for long And blights with plagues the marriage hearse. oxymoron link marriage with death-society has rnined it Plosive alliteration- babies losing innocence * critique of human power * quatrains look organised, but are very chaotic when you look closer, like London * problems are caused by those in power. *written in iambic tetrameter (8 sylabbies) 'mark'. - The rich mark the poorer as their own by keeping them weak * Blake saw religion as * * use of juxtaposition shows that even happiness is tainted. oppression * appoll' covering for a coffin * plagne suggests that misery is Spreading 41 aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 27 States