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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.Slide12Slide13Slide14Slide15Slide16Slide17Slide18Slide19Slide20Slide21Slide22Slide23
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