Talk:London (poem)

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This page is, umm, problematic. Originally a high-school "response to poetry" assignment, I have tried to work it into a more readable format. Not really successful. I'd have been better off just replacing the article with the poem. Any ideas?

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Dev920 16:55, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chartered

The comment on the word 'chartered' is in error. The word has nothing to do with mapping. That's "charted" not "chartered". Also, in this period one of the most common meanings of 'chartered' was 'freighted' - that is laden. It appears in this meaning in Wordsworth's Old Cumberland Beggar (1800), "And let the chartered wind that sweeps the heath/Beat his grey locks against his withered face", where chartered seems to mean "heavy" (though ity may mean "free", as in licensed). This differs from the meaning "controlled by a charter granting exclusive rights". Paul B (talk) 16:43, 7 January 2008 (UTC)