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2. Understand the poem:
1. These words are repeated. The meaning of: ‘charter’d’ as used in lines 1 and 2 means mapped out, contained, controlled. In line 3, the meaning of ‘mark’ is a verb for notice, he is a keen observer of his city and people but in line 4, ‘marks’ is a noun meaning signs of – almost like branding something.
2. “in every face”
3. These children were forced to work because they were small enough to fit inside the chimneys. It was a dangerous job as they would sometimes get stuck in the chimneys or fall down the chimneys.
4. (a) The church building would become black because of the soot from pollution due to the industrial revolution.
(b) Blake criticises the church, which is supposed to provide moral and spiritual upliftment to people, yet it did nothing to combat exploitation, poverty, declining morality or social injustice.
5. The curse would be passed on to their children.
6. Marriage was corrupted by extramarital affairs with prostitutes “harlots”, who spread sexually transmitted diseases to the husbands who visit them on one level and extend the corruption by poisoning their normal relationships on another level.
Explore poetic devices:
1. abab; cdcd
2. c
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