This document was used in my revision and helped me to achieve a Grade 9 in my English Literature GCSE (159/160) - key words and alternative interpretations of quotes are provided.
↳ may be inferred that he is
↑
I wander thro' each charter'd street,
writing about London from his
2
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. own perspective
3
And mark in every face I meet respected the Bible but disliked
↑
Marks of weakness, marks of woe. organised religion (e g
. Church
Of .
England)
3
In every cry of every Man, often wrote about rebelling
against the misuse of power and
6
In every Infants cry of fear, class
7
In every voice: in every ban, Publishing context :
8
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear London Comes from Blake's collection , Songs
of Experience' 1794 which was coupled
9
How the Chimney-sweepers cry with his songs of Innocence' 1789
earlier ,
↳
they were always sold together as a
10
Every blackning Church appalls,
companion piece
11
And the hapless Soldiers sigh London can be seem as a critique of human :
12 Runs in blood down Palace walls power , exposing the distance between those
in power and those suffering . The suffering
13
But most thro' midnight streets I hear is inescapable because it is caused by the
misuse of power by those in Control
14
How the youthful Harlots curse
Industrial Revolution :
15
Blasts the new-born Infants tear caused the population of London to
16
And blights with plagues the Marriage increasemassively
hearse ·
Blake was against it
Structure :
1. Written in quatrains (Stanzas of a lines each
.
2 repetition
↳ repetitive rhyme scheme and stanza structure
↳ reflects the relentless , repetitive and overwhelming suffering in the city
↳ repetition of words
↳ the life of succering is repetitive and inescapable as a result of choices
from those in power who choose not to create change
.
3 Text structure :
·
Stanza 1 & 2-focus on the people suffering
Stanza 3-focuses on the cause of succering (church ,
industrialisation etc)
Stanza 4-focus
↳ Cyclical structure -
on
highlights
the people
the
suffering again
inescapable fate
. meter
4
·
mainly written in iambic tetrameter (eight syllables with alternating stressed
and unstressed syllables
marks of weakness ,
marks of woe'
↳ Only seven syllables (not eight
↳ this line highlighting the weakness
is of those struggling and is weak
itself -
due to the syllable count
Language :
1. imagery of suffering
↳ lines 7-6 ,
9 ,
19 & soldiers sign' :
overwhelmingly long list of negative language
2 . 'Charter'd' (repeated
↳ Thames :
juxtaposition between power of nature and man
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