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8 Cards in this Set
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i wander thro' each charter'd street |
complaining about the expansion of cities- urbanisation -destroying nature land is owned by people and is not free for anyone to stay on |
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the mind-forg'd manacles i hear |
metaphor and alliteration we have be chained to this way of life and its our own doing. forced to believe the social hierarchy |
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what does the word forged show? |
fake way of looking at the world factory made-every one is the same |
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every blacking church appalls |
the church will no longer help the poor as they are drifting away from true Christianity - lost its way |
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what can the word appalls mean in this poem |
-doesn't change -shocked at the exploited children that clean chimneys -material put over a coffin: dead religion |
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runs in blood down the palace walls |
referencing the french revolution, showing it could happen anytime in England (royals executed). society is corrupt: the poor will rise up and kill the rich due to divide |
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and blights with plagues the marriage hearse |
criticising the patriarchy, and how men sleep with other women: prostitutes and give their wives diseases that can kill them & their children if they are born while she has it. behaviour of men- corruption. |
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what is the context for this quote : "and blights with plagues the marriage hearse" |
married an illiterate woman through love taught her to read and write made her an equal in his business he was a feminist in equality |
