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power and conflict - Coggle Diagram

- - - - he thinks he is a god amongst men , this is a biblical reference which shows how he belives his power is all mighty and that he him self is an institution
    - - The statue is barely standing, the rest is ruined
        
        and missing. Suggesting that it is being eaten
        
        away by time and the desert, a futile struggle
        
        to survive where nobody is around to care.
    - - Mock’ as in to make a model of, but
        
        also to make fun of, this is a Pun
        
        because of the double meaning
    - - The tone, indicated by the exclamation is
        
        strong and authoritative, irony is that nobody is
        
        listening
    - - Colossal, meaning vast or huge, is a
        
        metaphor for his ego rather than the
        
        statue
- - - - Blake saw religion as a tool to keep the people down and therefore was wrong
        ‘blackening
    - - Chartered is something which is listed and regulated, the
        
        streets are clearly controlled but it suggests the Thames, the
        
        river likewise is controlled, nature controlled by man
    - - This draws on the link to war at this time
      - The blood running down palace walls
        
        signifies their sacrifice to protect the power of those who live in the palaces. It is
        
        a symbolic metaphor
    - - Oxymoron which juxtaposes the joy of marriage with the
        misery of death
      - Blake is suggesting that society has
        destroyed all the good things in life.