Poems by Wordsworth and Blake

The metropolis of capital of the United Kingdom has inspired umpteen poets throughout the ages: from Chaucers Pilgrims to Larkins The Whitsun Weddings. Two of the most distinctive portrayals are William Blakes capital of the United Kingdom (1794) and William Wordsworths compose upon Westminster duo, Sept. 3, 1803. Blakes poem presents a sensitive view of capital of the United Kingdom in the late 18th century, a dismal picture of move humanity. By contrast, Wordsworths Composed upon Westminster Bridge shows the city of capital of the United Kingdom as beautiful and benign, non in any agency threatening or corrupting. This examine explores how these two impressions of capital of the United Kingdom compute on what aspect of London is being examined. Blake wanders around London viewing its inhabitants and describing what he sees and hears; whereas Wordsworth frame static on Westminster Bridge admiring an early morning injection view of London speckle its inhabitants are asle ep: an unique opinion of the city for him. It is more(prenominal) usual for Wordsworth to reject cities in favor of the countryside and character. In Lines indite a Few Miles to a higher place Tintern Abbey composed in 1798, some(prenominal) five years prior than Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Wordsworth writes:\n\nI am still\nA yellowish br take in of the meadows and the woods,\nAnd mountains; and of all that we behold\nFrom this yard earth; of all the aright world\nOf eye and ear, two what they half-create,\nAnd what perceive; well rapturous to recognize\nIn nature and the language of my purest thoughts, the nurse,\nThe guide, the guardian of my heart, and instinct\nOf all my moral being. (lines 103-112)\n\n barely when praising London in Composed upon Westminster Bridge Wordsworth claims [n]eer saw I, never felt, a calm so wakeless (line 12). He sees the city as peaceful and calm, and this impacts on his own cast of mind. However, Wordsworth is viewing London from Westminster Bridge when the city is quiescence - without the chaos of daily spirit around him. He is alone admiring a scene and doing so in unequivocal basis: in this em...