Topic:
London – William Blake
Key Points/Arguments
Structure Literary/Dramatic Devices Critical Quotations (p.) Context + Contextual Quotations
S1
I wander ‘I wander’ – internalising movt Rousseouian Primitivism –
I meet (general to particular and idealisation of nativity as being
I hear macroscopic to microscopic) – the state of nature uncorrupted by
observer to city
- Speaker is both observer acculturation
‘charter’d street’ –
and participant ‘Nature made me happy and good
artificial/constrained = cities,
mapped, links to ‘fearful symmetry’ and if I am otherwise, it is
Enjambement throughout final of Tyger society’s fault’
stanza ‘charter’d Thames’ – forcedully ‘And much it grieved my heart to
imposed artificial on the natural think what man has made of man’
‘flow.’ – unusual end of line ½ way – Wordsworth
though stanza, juxtaposes ‘flow’.
Authority, rep of charterd while ppl Dialectism – strenuously
are ‘weak’ with ‘woe’ interrogative nature of
‘meet’ – enjambement blends Romantic poetry
subject and object (ppl together), Negative capability
contact/ intimacy
‘is that trembling cry a song’ –
‘marks’ – physical damage
(scarred), injustice of cities/wars holy Thursday, Blake
imprinted ‘did he who made the lamb make
London – William Blake
Key Points/Arguments
Structure Literary/Dramatic Devices Critical Quotations (p.) Context + Contextual Quotations
S1
I wander ‘I wander’ – internalising movt Rousseouian Primitivism –
I meet (general to particular and idealisation of nativity as being
I hear macroscopic to microscopic) – the state of nature uncorrupted by
observer to city
- Speaker is both observer acculturation
‘charter’d street’ –
and participant ‘Nature made me happy and good
artificial/constrained = cities,
mapped, links to ‘fearful symmetry’ and if I am otherwise, it is
Enjambement throughout final of Tyger society’s fault’
stanza ‘charter’d Thames’ – forcedully ‘And much it grieved my heart to
imposed artificial on the natural think what man has made of man’
‘flow.’ – unusual end of line ½ way – Wordsworth
though stanza, juxtaposes ‘flow’.
Authority, rep of charterd while ppl Dialectism – strenuously
are ‘weak’ with ‘woe’ interrogative nature of
‘meet’ – enjambement blends Romantic poetry
subject and object (ppl together), Negative capability
contact/ intimacy
‘is that trembling cry a song’ –
‘marks’ – physical damage
(scarred), injustice of cities/wars holy Thursday, Blake
imprinted ‘did he who made the lamb make
