Zusammenfassung der Ressource
London - William Blake
- Lexis and imagery
- Metaphor- "Mind-forged
manacles"
- Conveys the further intentions of the
writer highlighting the isolation of
society around him.
- Colour symbolism- "Midnight"/ "Blackening"
- Emphasises the emotions of London at the time visualises the
pain and misery of the people living in London.
- Juxtaposition of common nouns -
"harlot's"/"infants"
- Shows a wide range of society
(people) young /old - who are living in
poverty
- The verb - 'wander'
- Suggests that Blake and the world is lost in poverty
- The common noun - 'mark'
- Indicates that everyone has
been marked by poverty
- Repeated adjective -
'chartered'
- Implies that laws are enforced
- Grammar and syntax
- Parallelism and repetition of the
determiner 'every'- "In every cry"
- Emphasises how poverty can effect every one
- Phonology
- Sibilance- "hapless soldier's sigh"
- The auditory effect of the
repeated 's' sound creates a
sound of a sigh this portrays
a defeated sound highlighting
how London can't win the
battle of poverty
- Structure and form
- Four quatrains using regular alternate rhyme - "street"/ "flow"/"meet"/"woe"
- Creates the image of a monotonous life in poverty
- Caesura - "In every voice,
in every ban"
- Creates a pause which allows time for
the reader to reflect on how awful
London is it also implies an slow/on
going life style which everyone is
living
- Enjambment in stanza 3
- Indicates an on going and
painfully slow lifestyle in Poverty
- Narrative stance
- First person singular pronoun - 'I'
- Highlights Blake's own personal
experience of poverty