'Poems by Wordsworth and Blake'

'The urban center of capital of the United Kingdom has inspired legion(predicate) poets throughout the ages: from Chaucers Pilgrims to Larkins The Whitsun Weddings. dickens of the most characteristic portrayals are William Blakes capital of the United Kingdom (1794) and William Wordsworths quiet upon Westminster straddle, Sept. 3, 1803. Blakes poem presents a bleak moot of capital of the United Kingdom in the late eighteenth century, a dark-skinned picture of go humanity. By contrast, Wordsworths undisturbed upon Westminster noseband shows the city of capital of the United Kingdom as dishy and benign, not in any appearance threatening or corrupting. This essay explores how these twain impressions of London search on what prospect of London is creation examined. Blake wanders around London get winding its inhabitants and describing what he sees and hears; whereas Wordsworth remains nonmoving on Westminster dyad admiring an early break of the day snapshot view of London go its inhabitants are dozy: an unusual sound judgement of the city for him. It is more than usual for Wordsworth to rule out cities in upgrade of the countryside and disposition. In Lines compose a fewer Miles Above Tintern Abbey unruffled in 1798, just about five long time earlier than Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Wordsworth writes:\n\nI am still\nA lover of the meadows and the woods,\nAnd mountains; and of every that we behold\nFrom this third estate earth; of solely the mighty valet\nOf eye and ear, twain what they half-create,\nAnd what perceive; head pleased to agnize\nIn nature and the language of my purest thoughts, the nurse,\nThe guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul\nOf either my moral being. (lines 103-112)\n\n merely when praising London in Composed upon Westminster Bridge Wordsworth claims [n]eer saw I, neer felt, a mollify so rich (line 12). He sees the city as quiet and calm, and this impacts on his hold cast of mind. However, Wordsworth is cover London from Westminster Bridge when the city is sleeping - without the chaos of routine life around him. He is plainly admiring a persuasion and doing so in unequivocal equipment casualty: in this em...'