Poems by Wordsworth and Blake

The city of capital of the United Kingdom has inspired many poets end-to-end the ages: from Chaucers Pilgrims to Larkins The Whitsun Weddings. deuce of the most distinctive portrayals be William Blakes London (1794) and William Wordsworths composed upon Westminster bridge deck, Sept. 3, 1803. Blakes rime presents a bleak great deal of London in the young 18th century, a downhearted picture of f every last(predicate)en humanity. By contrast, Wordsworths quiet upon Westminster nosepiece shows the city of London as beautiful and benign, not in any way clayey or corrupting. This essay explores how these two impressions of London depend on what aspect of London is cosmos examined. Blake wanders about London covering its inhabitants and describing what he sees and hears; whereas Wordsworth remains silent on Westminster Bridge admiring an archeozoic morning snapshot mentation of London while its inhabitants ar asleep: an un inveterate look of the city for him. It is more usual for Wordsworth to reject cities in raise of the countryside and nature. In Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey calmness in 1798, some quin years earlier than Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Wordsworth writes:\n\nI am lock\nA lover of the meadows and the woods,\nAnd mountains; and of tout ensemble that we behold\nFrom this green reason; of all the mighty existence\nOf eye and ear, both what they half-create,\nAnd what distinguish; well pleased to recognise\nIn nature and the lyric poem of my purest thoughts, the nurse,\nThe guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul\nOf all my moral being. (lines 103-112)\n\nYet when evaluate London in Composed upon Westminster Bridge Wordsworth claims [n]eer axiom I, never felt, a calm so deep (line 12). He sees the city as quiet and calm, and this impacts on his own shake of mind. However, Wordsworth is viewing London from Westminster Bridge when the city is sleeping - without the topsy-turvydom of daily life around him. He is simply admiring a scene and doing so in unequivocal terms: in this em...