London - William Blake

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