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In your MOCK and final EXAM for Literature you will write about poems in your anthology You will compare the poems All the poems are linked by the theme of POWER and CONFLICT Location Location Location ID: 641123

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London William Blake JCSlide2

Back to Poetry

In your MOCK and final EXAM for Literature you will write about poems in your anthology

You will compare the poems

All the poems are linked by the theme of POWER and CONFLICTSlide3

Location, Location, Location!

Where is this? Have you visited? Why?

Impressions of the place? Why is it an important place?Slide4

Time Travel

What was life like back in the 1700s in London?

What ideas do the pictures of the time give you?Slide5

What does this

picture say

about London in

18

th

century?Hogarth’s ‘Gin Alley’Slide6

What does this

picture say

about London in

18

th

century?Poverty

LawlessnessImmoral behaviour

Drunkenness?Slide7

What does this

picture say

about London in

18

th

century?Hogarth’s ‘Gin Alley’Slide8

The skeleton

man shows ……….

…………………………

………………………….

about life in

London.

London c1800Slide9

Using the information we have deduced from the two paintings, write a paragraph describing what London and London life was like during the 18

th

century.

Consider:

Poverty

Illness/diseaseEmployment

CrimeDeathPeople’s behaviourSlide10

1st

Reading

Read the poem once and consider:

What might the poem be about?

What impressions are given of London?

What emotions / atmosphere do you get when reading the poem?Slide11

London: Link the Images

Find a quotation that you could link the image to from the poem.

What ideas / associations / inferences might you make about the image?

How might these ideas relate to how the image is used in the poem and

whaty

it might mean.Slide12
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William Blake

William Blake illustrated some of his poems – what impressions do the illustrations create?Slide24

Context – William Blake

Blake lived in London – so was well placed to comment on what was happening in 18

th

century London.

Blake lost faith in religion – due to the Church refusing to help the children that suffered (homeless/poor/forced to work).

Industrial revolution taking place in England – pollution / dangerous and exhausting work.

French revolution (1789) – French citizens with low social status (poor) rising up against the powerful aristocracy (rich).

LO: To explore Blake’s use of language and links to social context.Slide25

Context – William Blake

Blake lived in London – so was well placed to comment on what was happening in 18

th

century London.

Blake lost faith in religion – due to the Church refusing to help the children that suffered (homeless/poor/forced to work).

Industrial revolution taking place in England – pollution / dangerous and exhausting work.

French revolution (1789) – French citizens with low social status (poor) rising up against the powerful aristocracy (rich).

Can you link any of the context ideas to the poem?Slide26

Line

Word/phrase

Explanation

1

charter

4

woe

7

ban

8

forg’d

8

manacles

10

appals

11

hapless

14

harlot

16

blights

16

hearseSlide27

Explanation

Prostitute

Very upsetting or distressing

A carriage used to carry a coffin to a funeral

To restrict something

a thing that spoils or damages something

sorrow

Made by hand from metal

Confined / mapped out / owned by someone

Two metal bands joined by a chain used to fasten a person’s ankle – like handcuffs

Unfortunate

Match the definitions / explanations to the words from the poem.Slide28

Line

Word/phrase

Explanation

1

charter

Confined / mapped out / owned by someone

4

woe

sorrow

7

ban

To restrict something

8

forg’d

Made by hand from metal

8

manacles

Two metal bands joined by a chain used to fasten a person’s ankle – like handcuffs

10

appals

Very upsetting or distressing

11

hapless

Unfortunate

14

harlot

prostitute

16

blights

a thing that spoils or damages something

16

hearse

A carriage used to carry a coffin to a funeralSlide29

I wander thro' each

charter'd

street,

Near where the

charter'd Thames does flow. 

And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. LO: To explore Blake’s use of language and links to social context.

Observing – what connotations are contained in the

word

“wander”?

What does the word chartered imply?

What does the word “flow” imply?

Where is there conflict? Consider the social context (industrial revolution) and the content in this chapter.

No exceptions – possibly a hyperbole?

What do these words tell us about life in London?Slide30

In every cry of every Man,

In every Infants cry of fear,

In every voice: in every ban,

The mind-forg'd manacles I hear 

Repetition

of “every” = applies to all

Freedom of thought being taken away? / The restrictions put in place by 18

th

century/industrial revolution “mind-set” (the chartered streets/river)

Ban =

imposed by those in power / restriction and conflict between those in power restricting

freedom

LO: To explore Blake’s use of language and links to social context.Slide31

How the Chimney-sweepers cry

Every black’ning Church appalls, 

And the hapless Soldier’s sigh

Runs in blood down Palace walls 

Repetition of child labour between stanzas. Reinforces poet’s

personal

view?

Powerful institutions, “

black’ning

” = soot covered from the orphans? / churches becoming “evil” (less pure) for not protecting

children

(“

appalls

”)

Chimney sweeps were usually children (orphans) in the care of the church.

Soldiers abandoned by their country they have served / used to love. The soldier’s blood is a stain on the institution.

Who is to blame?

Link to

power/conflict

?

LO: To explore Blake’s use of language and links to social context.

Why does the soldier sigh? Slide32

But most thro' midnight streets I hear

How the youthful Harlots curse

Blasts the new-born Infants tear 

And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse 

Young prostitutes are “attacking” (shouting at) new born

babies

for crying

LO: To explore Blake’s use of language and links to social context.

Curse is symbolic of her life – she feels cursed to suffer

The existence of a young prostitute (who may have had a child) ruins the concept

of

marriage

Images of death and disease linked to marriage. Uses oxymoron of marriage (giving life) and funeral (death) - pessimistic Slide33

Power and Conflict

What ideas are there in the poem about power and conflict?

Who has power? Who is powerless?

Who is the conflict between?

Watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0GMqqEuus Slide34

Power and Conflict

Powerful in ‘London’

Powerless in ‘London’

The church

because it is “

black’ning” suggesting it is a force for evil, not good. It “appalls

” the poet.The palace because …Common people because their faces show “weakness” and “woe” – they are miserable and can’t stand up to those in power.Men because …The children and babies because …The chimney sweep …

The child prostitute …Slide35

Main focus:

POWER

and

CONFLICT

Questions:

(Find quotes to support your answers)Who has power, according to the narrator?What is the importance of the use of the word “chartered”? What is the significance of the soldier?Why is the oxymoron “marriage hearse” used?

Challenge yourself How does the rigid structure of the poem show power/conflict?LO: To explore Blake’s use of language and links to social context.Slide36