London by blake annotations

that
immediately establishes the first person perspective of the poem perhaps suggesting Blake is
writing from personal experience .
The verb

implying
' ' ' '
wander
suggests aimlessness especially as it is a homophone of Wonder questioning that is antithetical to oppression that
µq
does not encourage this in the masses .




implies the all -

encompassing nature of ownership that is omnipresent


London "
EH
µ The repeated adjective refers
absolute control of those with money and power It is paradoxical that something that
to private ownership
.
of public areas
conveying the


should be naturally free such as the Thames , is controlled Blake changed the adjective .




from dirty in earlier to emphasise this impression of control
' '

drafts .




BY WIL L IAM BL AKE pg
A verb that has connations of
on
both being
won,
forced
, meg, ,
to

yny.mn any a , , , a pay, , ,, , pun m, ma,

is dehivmanising and grotesque
.




I wander thro' each charter'd street, The use of antanclasis uses the same word
and scarring to
with different meanings noticing something :



emphasise the indelible damage that has been inflicted on


Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. both the landscape and people The triadic repitition and use
Of the word as both a noun and a verb highlights
its
.




'
Mark was
'
also a disciple of Jesus in the
significance
.




And mark in every face I meet bible
with church
potentially highlighting Blakes theological concerns

oppression
.




Marks of weakness, marks of woe. The alternating m and w alliteration enhances the

rhythmic marching effect suggestive of both the speakers
to
footsteps and the soiiders marching which is connected

triadic anaphoric repition foregrounds the notion of internalised oppression .




• The
oppression and implies that is inescapable the bleak abstract noun
conveys in
All consuming misery about the city
The proliferation of oral / aural
.




In every cry of every Man, imagery reinforces
pervasive misery
the

that
readers impression of
is internalised by
the whole populace
In every Infants cry of fear,
.




• • This is a pun of prohibition and the boundaries of a district limiting both physical
movement and thought .



the repeated '

forget is linked to
'
determinist
important metaphor poem The term in the

In every voice: in every ban,
.




the most
nyperboiises the with the industrial
and iron and revolution that thus
situation implying ☒ working fire
industrial occupations moreover , it
into the city and into
.




drove people
this suffering impacts
every individual furnaces used to make iron and thus symbolic
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear linked to the
maybe
.




are
forget implying that they
'
However , these chains mind
'
hell are
Of .




people themselves through simple
as the oppress
psychological constructs as they are indoctrinated to obey and
exacperation acquiescing to those in power
interrogative
-


linked and the authority of institutions such as
• and disbelief recurring symbol believe in their own inferiority
f- to cruelty and oppression
1- of the fact that it is an internal state makes
it
children and the abuse the monarchy and Chiron
-




og me poor by
How the Chimney-sweepers cry the wealthy all
or
as
the by the image of the manacles f.chains
hand and ankle
more inescapable
bands employed
conveyed
on prisoners?

repeated
Every blackning Church appalls, adjective corruption placement next to the church
oxymoronic
-
and
irony
- -

←
determiner their complicity in the
metaphorically blackened by
-



confusion
-
exploitation
all pervasive
the weakest in society reflection of the pollution in London -
industrial
og
-
power the
.




of
Church
And the hapless Soldiers sigh → verb
Revolution .




'

Shocking / disgust Pun '
on pan death
-


• used to or as a -
a cloth
for a
coffin →
-




fight
a mercenary

Ep
Runs in blood down Palace walls → symbolic of confinement
sibilance -
aural image -
impression of misery
↳ symbolic of guilt + crime Of those in
authority ,


unhappiness + luckless , grotesque image
-
violent world .

synecdoche -




aciostic imperative reader wanting
=HE an to -
all those in power,
-



Bathetic suffix ampnasises darkness Change
-



_* movement from , wander , → runs , '
from charted ' monarchy they are
paucity of experience in
-
-




qn
listen to the
need to escape i oppression breathes NS to
suffering of peopl
companion to their responsible
Potential
But most thro' midnight streets I hear
.




metaphor -
Blake is accusing those in power
superlative
-


foreshadows a disturbing sense of a
further dystopia og wasting lives on cause that have no
building up to a climax

How the youthful Harlots curse cursing her life people
• despair
the common
'




to
meaning
.

,



violent verb
metaphorical gorpregnacylstl -




disease
-


✓
onomatopoeically breathy alliteration -
breathless
connations Of reality i
Blasts the new-born Infants tear oxymoronic
-
Shocking
but
•
phonics =
disbelief at child prostitution
new ☒ very young prostitutes
also
and suffering .




Vllnrabilites in convictions
misery disruptive
innocence
• symbol of
-
+
industrial processes • repeats their
.


=

danger in this cruel environment
.




And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse Violence and disruption
plosive alliteration
-




•
gods judgement + disaster
bleak , fatalistic conclusion
To
biblical connations -
apocalyptic world ;
disease

oxymoronic ; death of love ; married men
rental
by visiting prostitutes pass on

in
diseases to there wife resulting
at
infertility and death Children born
.




Of Weadlock are doomed to life of
oppression because cyclical