Speech By Ken Livingston Addressed To The People Of London
Speech By Ken Livingston Addressed To The People Of London Robert Scott My fellow Londoners I was appointed by you the people and my soul purpose is to serve the people of London to the best of my ability and I believe I am doing so and will continue. The congestion charge is that now in operation was not snuck in through the back door as some uninformed ministers have suggested, despite growing public and cabinet objection to the congestion charge the principle was documented heavily in my manifesto prior to my landslide victory my intentions were clear, and should come as no shock to my constituents. The erroneous commonly view of the charge being new and conjured up by myself as a means to squeeze money out of motorists is quite absurd, it was actually proposed 38 years ago and the fact of the matter is nobody has had the back bone to push the legislation through until myself. 38 years have passed 13,870 days of road works due to under funding, and traffic jams due to over populated roads has become the norm for Londoners and enough is enough; its time for action and the time is now. It is all very well and good little public schoolboys such as Steven Norris saying and I quote "charging is not the way." What I'd like to say to him is, "Steven your government has had 38 years to come up with a creditable alternative so where the hell is it? Either put up or shut up.
What have you understood, from reading the poems of William Blake?
Amna Abdelrahim What have you understood, from reading the poems of William Blake? William Blake, a late 18th century English Romantic poet uses traditional forms for his poetry in that he blends the ballad, the nursery rhyme and the hymn. The meaning he constructs from these forms however is far from traditional. His style was to express very complex ideas in very simple language and compressing a lot of deep meaning into often very short poems. Blake was a rebel and was over enjoyed when the French revolution liberated the repressed underclass. He wanted social equality but the industrial revolution just widened the gap between the rich and the poor. He often criticised the Establishment, especially the Church, for its hypocrisy and he was against things that prevented the human spirit from being free, therefore he disliked the rulings of kings and priests. All that surrounded him had an influence on his poetry. His poems are separated into innocence and experience, both opposites as Innocence has the sounds of laughter and joy the images of simplicity, children being protected, unthreatening animals like the birds and the lamb also beauty of nature, the roses and the non scary daylight, brightness and sunshine reflecting the creator's warm love. Next, experience which is something which you bring to yourself as time passes; here we hear sounds of crying, weeping, sighing
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Rajit Shail English Literature Coursework April 2007 How does William Blake portray childhood in Songs of innocence and Experience? William Blake was a late eighteenth century poet who became famous for his two anthology of Song of Innocence (published in 1789) and Songs of Experience (published in 1794). He focused his poems mainly on children and religion. Several of his poems were written for children as it was easy to understand, used simple vocabulary, simple verse and some were happy and optimistic. However most of his poems had a deeper meaning. Blake lived during the Industrial Revolution. This was a period of immense social, political and cultural change in many areas of the world. He saw child labour and blamed the Church and wealthy people for not doing anything about it. He lived poor, therefore was unable to do anything himself. His poems like 'The Chimney Sweeper' and 'Holy Thursday' show the hardship put upon the orphan children of the time. They did dangerous jobs to get their daily bread and many died. Blake saw this and wrote countless of his poems based on this. Songs on Innocence was Blake's first collection and it demonstrates how people are often blind to their own reality. Most songs are from the viewpoint of a child implying their innocence. This can be seen in 'the Chimney Sweeper' where it is written: 'When my mother died I was very young.'
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Jose Acosta December 10, 2003 AP English - Mr. Fidemi William Blake - "The Lamb" William Blake's "The Lamb" is an attempt to bring up life's ultimate questions through the voice of child-like speaker. The poem is structured with the question as the first stanza and the answer as the second stanza. Blake initially introduces a naive child asking simple questions but later dives into deep philosophical theories regarding life and creation as the child in turn tries to answer those exact questions. "The Lamb" in trying to convey the answers to certain philosophical questions exhibits basic Christian creedal statements and relays certain images concerning Jesus and also tries to explain His relation to common man. The opening line of the poem embodies every human's curiosities surrounding creation and the origins of human existence. The speaker naively questions the lamb regarding its nature and also its creation. The speaker is representing a child and childish inquiries, yet is addressing the notions of our existence that every person questions at one point or another, be it a child or an adult. The childish inquires carry on as the speaker mentions if the lamb knows who "Gave thee clothing of delight...[and] Gave thee such a tender voice." The poem is enveloped in a sea of naivety as well as humor as the speaker is directly speaking with an animal seeking profound
William Blake
William Blake I am going to compare and contrast three of William Blake poems, where he shows his feelings about the way people treat children: The Chimney-Sweeper, Holy Thursday (Innocence) and London. The Chimney-Sweeper is about a child who sweeps chimneys. William Blake sets this poem in the winter. The children worked in the cold. Blake says, "A little black thing among the snow," "The little black thing," Is the child who is dirty from cleaning the chimneys who stands out in the snow. He also looks like a black mask on the landscape. Like a dirty stain. "Crying weep, weep in the notes of woe!" Blake hears them crying a song. As children do when they are sad, the notes of woe are notes of extreme sadness. "Where are both father and mother? Say? They are both gone up to the church to pray" this sounds as if someone is asking the boy questions and he answers. The child's parents are missing. They don't know where their parent are, they could be praying at church. The church back then was in possession of a lot of land, building and laid down guide lives for people's life styles. It also seems as if the church supports the parents and does not consider that they have done any thing wrong. The parents are sending the children to work at early age, and in dangerous conditions (chimneys). In the second verse William Blake talks about the child as a happy child, but since