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London - William Blake
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Mind map of poem London by William Blake
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London - William Blake
Vocabulary
Chartered - plotted or mapped, unemotional scientific process
Woe - sadness
Manacles - leg irons
Appalls - rejections, Church is not helping people
Hapless - abandoned
Harlot - prostitute
Blights - overshadows
Poetic techniques
ABAB rhyme scheme - regular pattern, suggests link between 2 disjointed sections of soeciety
Metaphor
Repetition
Oxymoron - marriage hearse
Ideas and Imagery
Every man etc. - they all have a terrible life
Mind-forged manacles - freedom of thought taken away, no opinions
Ban - imposed by those in power, restricting the poor
Black'ning Church - the Church is pure, not helping people
Blood down palace walls - a stain on the institution, reference the French Revolution
Chimney sweep - represents child labour
London is built on child labour and the poverty of workers
Is this a vision of London today?
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