GCSE - London poem annotations

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Protected Cadbad Sora mund +Saw it getting ripped apart He is lost, aimless London Powerless, I wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow, 4 Rep. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.: Negative atmosphere In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice in every ban, The mind-forged manacles I hear: Sympathy The streets + the river is owned by the Elite Emphasis Everyone is affected •Metaphor: mentally trapped like prisoners *² Restrictive How the chimney-sweeper's cry 10 Every black'ning church appalls, And the hapless soldier's sigh Runs in blood down palace walls. Prostitution=Survive William Blake (1757-1827) But most through midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot's curse 15 Blasts the new-born infant's tear, Poverty is increasing And blights with plagues the marriage hearse. LJuxtaposition instead of enlighting hids the profited from them *4 Hicle / protected whilst *Distinction betwen Class The cleath GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE POWER AND CONFLICT of marriage Oxymoron, moves through the city Lower class people's mentality of being able to live in corroption in religion at this point *4 critisising people's belief inequality soldiers die upper La Poverty of a Caom 5*. and lower *'Alliteration emphasises the was dismissed from effect poverty has on people writing choice if the want to survive clearly visible *³ Chilel labour Context: -It was around this time that France had thrown down the monarchy, meanwhile the uk had a heavy class system which still held many. back •Blake was controversial because he often challenged authority and disagreed with many ways the country was run. •Blake felt the need to step up and...

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