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What does Blake mean by a chartered street?
Owned, licensed and mapped out by law. He applies the same word to the Thames, so even a river that ought to run free has been turned into somebody's property.
A charter was normally boasted of as a guarantee of liberty. Blake turns the word inside out: the documents that grant rights to some are the ones that fence everybody else out.
What counts as detailed textual reference when you cannot quote a poem exactly?
Naming the specific image, line or moment and describing it accurately, so it is clear you are pointing at a real part of the text.
Accuracy matters more than length. A precise reference to a single image is worth more than a long quotation remembered wrongly.
Which words are worth checking most carefully for spelling in a literature essay?
The writer's name, the characters' names, the title of the text and the literary terms you use, since these recur throughout the answer.
A misspelling repeated twenty times is far more visible than a one-off slip. Capital letters are needed for names and for the title of the text.
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