'Poems by Wordsworth and Blake'

'The urban center of capital of the United Kingdom has inspired galore(postnominal) poets throughout the ages: from Chaucers Pilgrims to Larkins The Whitsun Weddings. devil of the most classifiable portrayals are William Blakes capital of the United Kingdom (1794) and William Wordsworths sedate upon Westminster dyad, Sept. 3, 1803. Blakes poem presents a bleak facet of capital of the United Kingdom in the late eighteenth century, a sulky picture of f both(prenominal) told humanity. By contrast, Wordsworths sedate upon Westminster tie shows the city of capital of the United Kingdom as pretty-pretty and benign, not in any path threatening or corrupting. This essay explores how these both impressions of London direct on what sentiment of London is beingness examined. Blake wanders just about London counting its inhabitants and describing what he sees and hears; whereas Wordsworth remains passive on Westminster tide over admiring an early morning time snapshot view of London era its inhabitants are incognizant: an unusual picture of the city for him. It is much usual for Wordsworth to dis witness cities in choose of the countryside and nature. In Lines write a a couple of(prenominal) Miles Above Tintern Abbey quiet in 1798, slightly five geezerhood earlier than Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Wordsworth writes:\n\nI am still\nA lover of the meadows and the woods,\nAnd mountains; and of each(prenominal) that we behold\nFrom this discolour earth; of all the mighty ground\nOf eye and ear, both what they half-create,\nAnd what perceive; advantageously pleased to identify\nIn nature and the language of my purest thoughts, the nurse,\nThe guide, the protector of my heart, and soul\nOf all my moral being. (lines 103-112)\n\n insofar when praising London in Composed upon Westminster Bridge Wordsworth claims [n]eer saw I, neer felt, a tranquillise so incomprehensible (line 12). He sees the city as placid and calm, and this impac ts on his own cast of mind. However, Wordsworth is masking London from Westminster Bridge when the city is dormancy - without the chaos of casual life around him. He is plain admiring a pellet and doing so in unequivocal basis: in this em...'