This lesson contains 10 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 1 video.
Items in this lesson
Rime of the ancient mariner
Slide 1 - Slide
What do you remember from the Rime of the ancient mariner?
Slide 2 - Mind map
Work in pairs
Make the assignments on page 25
Time: 15 minutes
timer
15:00
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William Blake's poem London read and a few of his thoughts expressed:
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Slide 5 - Video
www.litcharts.com
Slide 6 - Link
Assignments to London
1. In line 3 mark is a verb and means ‘see’ or ‘detect’. In line 4 mark is a noun and means ‘symbol’ or ‘visible trail’.
2. a. marks of weakness, marks of woe (line 4), cry (lines 5, 6, 9), fear (line 6), manacles (line 8), appals (line 10), hapless (line 11), sigh (line 11), blood (line 12), curse (line 14), blasts (line 15), tear (line 15), blights (line 16), plague (line 16) and hearse (line 16).
b. Surprise, anger.
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Assignments to London
3. a. charter’d (lines 1 and 2), marks (line 4), cry (lines 5, 6 and 9), every (lines 5, 6 and 7), hear (lines 8 and 13), infant (lines 5 and 15).
b. In general you can say that repetitions drive a point home. It emphasises something. That is the case here as well; with this extra nuance: every also indicates the degree of misery; cry / hear provides extra emphasise to ensure that you hear the misery.
4. No role whatsoever, except for line 10 ‘black’ning’. The colour black and the absence of other colours gives the poem an atmosphere of dullness, sombreness and sadness.
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Assignments to London
5. In Blake’s view the colour white means innocence. With regard to the institution of the Church he says that the church is busy losing its innocence and is no longer rooted in society.
6. a. The last stanza.
b. In line 13: most (primarily)
7. Because of her conduct her new-born baby dies and with her sexually transmitted disease she may infect a possible future husband.
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Assignments to London
8. Marriage and hearse do not go together. Marriage is the beginning and hearse is the end of a relationship. Blake means to say that due to the dangerous syphilis the marriage carriage will turn out to be a hearse.
