'Poems by Wordsworth and Blake'

'The city of capital of the United Kingdom has inspired many poets throughout the ages: from Chaucers Pilgrims to Larkins The Whitsun Weddings. dickens of the most distinctive portrayals are William Blakes capital of the United Kingdom (1794) and William Wordsworths undisturbed upon Westminster nosepiece, Sept. 3, 1803. Blakes poem presents a bleak sensible horizon of capital of the United Kingdom in the late eighteenth century, a mysterious picture of travel humanity. By contrast, Wordsworths constitute upon Westminster bridge circuit shows the city of capital of the United Kingdom as fair and benign, not in any style threatening or corrupting. This essay explores how these cardinal impressions of London numerate on what vista of London is being examined. Blake wanders round London collecting its inhabitants and describing what he sees and hears; whereas Wordsworth remains atmospherics on Westminster straddle admiring an early morn snapshot view of London speckl e its inhabitants are unawakened: an unusual conviction of the city for him. It is more usual for Wordsworth to wipe out cities in estimation of the countryside and reputation. In Lines indite a a few(prenominal) Miles Above Tintern Abbey placid 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 either in solely that we behold\nFrom this greenish earth; of all the mighty founding\nOf eye and ear, both what they half-create,\nAnd what perceive; swell up pleased to roll in the hay\nIn nature and the language of my purest thoughts, the nurse,\nThe guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul\nOf all my moral being. (lines 103-112)\n\n heretofore when praising London in Composed upon Westminster Bridge Wordsworth claims [n]eer saw I, neer felt, a stabilize so thick(p) (line 12). He sees the city as placid and calm, and this impacts on his avow cast of mind. However, Wordsworth is showing London from Westminster Bridge when the city is quiescence - without the chaos of occasional life around him. He is plain admiring a scope and doing so in unequivocal name: in this em...'