It also symbolises the lack of freedom when he says ‘in every ban.’ The last line in the second stanza is ambiguous ‘The mind-forg’d manacles I hear’ is a metaphorical phrase that reinforces the feeling of being trapped in London, the word manacles has connotations of slavery and that the people of London are enslaving themselves. Blake shows that even the children living in London at
This gives the impression that the stanza has just been forced and squeezed into the poem which represents the slums in India which are constantly under pressure. We also get this idea from the line “Someone has squeezed a living space”. Also with this form she is trying to show how things are not always as straightforward and as organised as people think. Furthermore there is some rhyming in the poem but the words which rhyme have a few lines in between them “That” and “flat”, “Beams” and “seams” and “Space” and “place”. This varying use of rhyme illustrates the poet’s ever
Blake’s poem is set in 18th century London, where he writes about the things that he sees, hears and feels whilst out walking through the streets. It’s almost a rant set in ballad form, four stanzas long, each containing an iambic tetrameter with a basic ABAB
He has written all stanzas, except the last (written in A B C D), in the form of A B A C. The theme of this poem, which is repeated on the last line of each stanza, is ‘You find this ugly, I find it lovely’. This is repeated to help point out the beauty in each stanza. The first stanza is giving a visual image of the street. ‘the red globes of light, the liquor green.’ sets the scene of beer bottles and the drinking culture. ‘The pulsing arrows, the running fire Spilt on the stones, go deeper than the stream’ The rain falling onto the cobbles.
Glasgow Sonnet (I) by Edwin Morgan The poem ‘Glasgow Sonnets (1)’ by Edwin Morgan is about the residents of a derelict housing estate in Glasgow, in which he explores the universal social issue of isolation along with other themes such as poverty, neglect and urban decay. He structures the poem in Petrarchan sonnet form, using an octave to describe the exterior of the building and a sestet to describe the interior. The themes explored throughout the poem are unconventionally dark for a classical sonnet form and Morgan does this in order to contrast between stereotypical connotations of sonnets such as love and romance and the morbid themes conveyed here. The mood of the residents and their surroundings are conveyed through imagery and emotive
The feelings of strolling through a large city by a river come right to mind when Blake opens with, “I wander through each chartered street, / Near where the chartered Thames does flow,” (1,2). The majority of the poem is about the speaker’s vision, and who is around him. As the speaker looks around the city, he sees people surrendering and succumbing to the censorship of the British Government. “And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe…/ And the hapless Soldier’s sigh” (3-4, 11), all show the speaker’s observations around the city. The Soldier does not want to be in the military.
Dylan Yates December 2, 2012 Writing about Literature Final Exam In the stories “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” you can see a lot of similarities and can definitely tell both are written Poe. Both stories have narrators who are bent on harming another human being. Both narrators start off by giving reasons why they are going to do the harm to the human being. They are telling the stories first-hand and both stories end with the victim’s death. In "The Tell-Tale Heart" the narrator tells about the old man’s staring and vacant eye, In "The Cask of Amontillado the narrator talks about "thousands of injuries" and "insult" that Fortunado had given Montresor over the years.
Both “The Prelude” by William Wordsworth and “London” By William Blake” convey strong ideas and feelings about a place. Blake’s poem is most subjective about the city, contrary to the title. The reader would think that the title “London” is objective and unbiased; however Blake’s condemnation of the city is apparent from the start of the poem. On a simple level, the poem is a description of the misery Blake sees as he “wanders” around London. On a deeper level however, he is criticizing not only the condition of the city itself, but the monarchy and government who oppress it.
It’s about a young adult named Holden Caulfield who never finds anything appealing. Holden always feels depressed and lonely, but always tries to hold it in. In the beginning Holden gets kicked out school, and then just aimlessly goes around New York City. This book appeals to a mass population for its complexity and relates to anyone who has ever gone through emotional trauma in their lives. Many believe that the most significant themes of the book include phoniness, death/suicide, and “The Catcher in the Rye.” Phoniness is a tremendous structure of The Catcher in the Rye.
In the following essay I will explore in greater detail the emotions and romantic aspects of the poems, and the opinions of the writers and audiences. I am now going to analyse the poem “London” by William Blake, which was written in 1792: Blake suggests that London is very vast; additionally he infers that it is a controlled and dictated city. Furthermore, the poem implies that London is artificial and shows no representation of the natural world in its splendour. “I wander through each chartered street/ Near where the chartered Thames does flow” By using the verb “Wander”, Blake is implying that London is bewildering. This is because to “Wander” means to travel around with no particular destination or purpose, or to deviate.