English poetry about needs
I walked on every chartered street, beside the chartered Thames, leaving traces of weakness and sadness on every face I met. In every man's cry, in every baby's cry of fear, in every voice, in every ban, I heard the shackles forged by my heart. How terrible is the cry of the chimney sweeper in every dark church; The sigh of the hapless soldier flowed in the blood-stained palace wall. But in the street at midnight, I heard how the curse of young prostitutes tore the tears of newborn babies and destroyed the wedding car with plague. William blake's poem London, first published on 1974, describes the hard life in London at that time. He described how dirty the streets and the Thames are, how the poor suffer for no reason, and how they desperately need money ... He created a dark atmosphere, which was boring and tiring. In the poem, the speaker walks the streets of London and comments on his observations. He saw despair in the faces of people he met and heard fear and depression in their voices. The wail of the chimney sweeper was a punishment for the church, and the blood of a soldier dyed the outer wall of the monarch's residence red. There is nothing more hopeful at night: the curse of prostitutes corrupts the newborn baby and defiles the "marriage hearse" The main point that Blake tried to express in London is that London is a terrible and dirty place. He also hinted that people in London live in fear and pain. This poem has four quatrains, and each line has a rhythm. Repetition is the most striking formal feature of this poem, which emphasizes the universality of the horror described by the speaker. For example, "Every cry of every man". This shows that everyone is disunited, so they are crying, and the repetition of the word "each" emphasizes everyone in London. He also repeatedly used "everyone" to emphasize that every Londoner is suffering. Repetition also symbolizes the way things can be imposed on people, and doing things repeatedly may make them a habit. The language used by Blake in London is mainly negative, because he uses dark and gloomy adjectives, such as "blackening". This implies a scene of darkness, evil and corruption. He did this in order to create a negative picture of London. Blake expressed his disgust and hatred for London where he lived. For example, he mentioned the concept of "plague", for example, "torture the wedding car with plague" This shows that even the happiest things, such as marriage, can be defiled by disease. Blake also used dark images to create the dark tone of poetry. In another parallel example in London, Blake put "marriage" and "hearse" together, implying that he would marry first and then die. The effect of putting the symbol of death next to marriage-a happy event basically means that the happiest things in life are defiled by diseases, such as the plague that leads to death. The poem London is divided into four sections. This poem uses the rhyme pattern of' A, B, A, B', which is limited to that beat. Blake also used homophones to mean "flow" and "woe". It has 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Blake wrote this poem by using his alliteration, imagery and rhetorical skills of diction and sentence formation, but more importantly, it expressed the implied emotional meaning. The central metaphor of this poem is the "ideological shackles" in the second section. A vivid symbol once again explains the profound human truth. The image of the forging factory appeared in The Times (San Anza 4). Here, Blake imagines the mind as a melting pot for making "chains". Blake sarcastically wrote "The Chartered Thames". "Weak" and "sad" (1794; It can be clearly seen "on everyone's face", just like in their crying, whether it is an adult or a baby (section 2). "Unlucky" (unfortunate) soldiers are a topic: this poem was written shortly after the start of the French Revolution: it was such a bloody uprising that an exaggerated metaphor was often used because it was said that blood was flowing down the walls. William blake's poem London is obviously a sad poem. It is pointed out to us in the first two sections that London is restricted by rules and regulations. Blake uses alliteration and word selection to create a sad atmosphere. When Blake "strolled" in the "chartered" society, he introduced his readers to the narrator. In such a society, everyone he sees has a "sign of weakness, a sign of sadness". In the second section, Blake repeatedly uses "everyone" and "crying" to symbolize the depression that hangs over the whole society. The "shackles forged by the mind" the narrator heard suggested that he was mentally unstable. In the third section, we are shown who is restricting the people of London, that is, the church, the soldiers and the palace/monarch. Blake used the images of destruction and religion. This image is a paradox, which implies some religious destruction like the apocalypse. "The cry of sweeping the chimney" symbolizes that society tries to clean up the ashes that lead to their depression. Blake used the religious image of "Henning Church" to express the loss of innocence and the abandonment of religion by society. The use of soldiers creates an image of war. The "sigh of the hapless soldier" symbolizes how people are called up to fight in the war and have no choice but to serve their country. When these soldiers don't want to follow the strong drums of the country, they know that their lives will be taken away, because their "sighs flow in the blood of the palace walls." Blake used this sense of destruction to explain how people were forced to repair the "weaknesses" and "defects" of their society. The fourth section of London reveals the complex meaning of this poem. The "curse of young prostitutes" symbolizes how the sins of young people will affect the next generation. Their "curse" led to "tears of newborn babies", which is an example of how the new generation can correct the mistakes of the previous generation. The "plague" also symbolizes this curse, and the "wedding hearse" creates a paradox that confuses eternity and death. The climax of this poem appears at the moment when the cycle of pain starts again, in the form of a new human life: a baby was born in poverty and his mother was a cursed prostitute. The combination of sex and marriage-the place where it may be regenerated and reborn-is polluted by the withering of sexually transmitted diseases. Therefore, Blake's final image is a "wedding hearse", a tool that combines love and desire with death and destruction. William blake's London is a poem about a society troubled by the mistakes of the previous generation. Blake used rhetorical elements such as imagery, alliteration and word selection to explain the meaning of this poem. What exactly does this poem mean? Blake created complexity by using his rhetorical skills, which in turn opened up a personal interpretation of the poem.