1. Answer them AROUND your picture.
By the end of this song, you need to have tried to have finished these tasks.
Answer them AROUND your picture.
Task 1: How does it make you feel?
Task 2: Where is the picture taken?
Task 3: How do the children feel?
Task 4: Give 3 ambitious adjectives to describe the image.
An adjective is a describing word like dreadful.

2. LONDON

3. LONDON 19th CENTURY

4. ‘London’
By William Blake

5. Context- who, when, where, why?
AO3- Show an understanding of the time when texts were written.
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Context- who, when, where, why?
Using your context sheet, go around in groups to the 3 stations and answer the questions on your sheet.

6. London I wander thro' each charter'd street,
London
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.
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 
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls, 
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls 
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.
Charter’d (1)- the streets and the Thames are owned by the government
Hapless (11)- unfortunate
Harlots (14)- prostitute
Blights (16)- a verb meaning to destroy

7. STRUCTURE NOTES
There is a repeated stanza structure. Every stanza is a quatrain (it has 4 lines)
There is also a repeated rhyme scheme: ABAB.
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.
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 
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls, 
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls 
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
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.
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 
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls, 
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls 
But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear 
And blights with plagues the Marriage
Focus on people suffering
That’s not the only REPETITIVE THING: There is a repetition of words too!
Stanza 3 the causes of the suffering
The constant repetition in the structure of the poem reflects the constant repetitive suffering in London that is unescapable.
Ends by going back to the people suffering

8. A charter gave someone control over a place.
The streets around the speaker are privately owned.
The poem starts with how the speaker can walk freely around London but it is a place controlled by those in power.
I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
Originally the poem said dirty but it was changed to charter’d
Betweeen around 6 million acres that was public land was made private.
The River Thames (nature) is also controlled by humans. The irony is though that the Thames flows and cannot be controlled.

9. mark in every face means notice every face
And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
Then mark means the signs of weakness and woe on the poor’s faces. The marks that the government left on the poor.
“woe” and “weakness” are emotive words to create sympathy for the suffering the poor went through

10. Capitalised to mock religion
Capitalised to mock religion. God made all men but these men have been mistreated by the church and government by the Poor Law Act.
The repetition symbolises how there is no escape: EVERYONE is suffering but NO ONE is helping!
In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban,
Infants is also capitalised. The infants suffer too. They cry in fear of how those in power will mistreat them. Yet those in power ignore their cries.

11. The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
Swiss Philosopher Rousseau said
“man is born free but everywhere is in chains”
Blake is agreeing with Rousseau: our thoughts and imagination have been created by people higher up, we don’t have our own thoughts and imagination.
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
The government have controlled our thoughts. People with actual power have made individuals weak and powerless.
A manacle is a chain usually put on criminals.

12. The image of children crying is repeated again
The image of children crying is repeated again. This time it is to show you how child labour caused suffering.
How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls
Hapless
means unfortunate
The palaces have the blood of their soldiers on their hands. Soldiers who fought for their country were not looked after either.

13. The church ABUSED ITS POWER
The blackning church
The church is blackened metaphorically by how it didn’t help the young in London.
The chimney sweepers cry makes the church black from the soot of the chimney sweeper or black because the church is not helping the child so it has to become a chimney sweeper to survive.
The church ABUSED ITS POWER

14. Harlot= prostitute
The new-born infant hears the young prostitute’s curses. It foreshadows how the young will grow up to live horrific lives because of the abuse of power of the government and church.
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
Happy image of marriage is contrasted to image of death (hearse) – oxymoron.
Notice the capital on Marriage because marriage is a religious thing.

15. CONFINEMENT – when you restrict freedom
Using one quote, produce a detailed written analysis with 4 developed ideas.
In the poem ‘London’ by William Blake, it looks at how…..
This is clear from the line “……”
This suggests…
Moreover it reveals that….
The word “……” in the quote shows….
This links with another line in the poem “……” because
CHALLENGE: can you link in how people are confined and have a lack of freedom in London- this can link with Blake’s believe that 19th London crushed imaginative thinking.
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CONFINEMENT – when you restrict freedom