London - Language, Structure, Context

Question 1

Time period (1794) - The French Revolution

Answer 1

Around the time of the French Revolution
Where peasants and poverty could rise up
During the revolution, the monarchy and the feudal system was abolished
Blake saw this as a powerful idea.

Question 2

Tight and Fixed Structure

Answer 2

Iambic tetrameter
4, 4-line, stanzas
Alternating rhyme
Poem is rigid and unbreakable - just like the social situation these people are in

Question 3

Full of _______ Imagery

Answer 3

Negative

Question 4

Life of Blake

Answer 4

Spent most of his life in London
London ‘stole’ his childhood
Importance - he is criticising the very place in which he lives.

Question 5

Style

Answer 5

Old-fashioned punctuation and typography
In 1784, Blake set up his own engraving business

Question 6

Catherine Boucher

Question 7

Positive and Negative outlooks

Answer 7

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Blake though you needed to have both views/representations to see the world clearly