Zusammenfassung der Ressource
London -
William Blake
- 'Hapless soldier's sigh' -
Doesn't care, given up
- ABAB rhyme sceme
- 'Chartered Thames' -
Controlled, unnatural, even
nature is controlled
- 'Black'ning church appalls'
- Metaphor, evil, should be
helping but not, pollution
- 'In every' - Rule of three,
affects everyone, is everywhere
- 'Youthful harlot's curse'
- Prostitute, problems
- 'Chartered' - Mapped out
- 'Chimney-sweeper's cry'
- Child workers
- 4 regular stanzas
- Contolled
- 'I' - First person
- 'Mind-forged manacles' - Made up, brainwashed,
not really there, own enslavement, trapped by
law, king, church, government
- 'Runs in blood down palace
walls' - Don't care, not helping
- 'Blasts the new-born infants ear' -
Metaphor, pass down misery and
expectations, infected with disease
- 'Marriage hearse' - Oxymoron,
metaphor, contrast, social control,
religious control
- 'Marks of weakness, marks
of woe' - Repetition, sad,
unhappy, marked into us
- 'Mark in every face'
- Affects everyone
- 'Plagues' -
Disease, infection
- 'Every ban' - Told what to
do, what they can and
cannot do, controlled, rules