“London vs. London” In “London” by William Blake, we can see how the mood of the poem is very dark and critical to the city of London. In “London” by William Wordsworth, the poem is portrayed the same way, showing how the city of London is on its lowest points in history. Both poems have a lot of similarities’; they are both about how in this point in history, London is on its lowest, the both authors are explaining how they don’t see London going nowhere and just staying the way it is. Both poets attack London in the topics of religion, army, people/home, and literature.
One story demonstrates this by the narrator walking down the street, expressing all that he sees and hears, while the other one being a letter of grief to John Milton.
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In those lines Wordsworth describes Milton by his soul being a bright star which means that he didn’t need approval of others in order to live the way he wanted to, he did what made him happy. People listened to him because his voice was as loud as the sea, loud and is heard everywhere. And also, Milton is described as a humble person, which would make his a good leader to follow making people change.
Finally in lines 13-14, William Wordsworth finishes off the poem by telling Milton that he after all didn’t avoid easy tasks.
As a result, “London” by William Blake, and “London” by William Wordsworth is being portrayed similarly by both poets, William Blake makes his poem criticize the people, church, and soldiers of London. William Wordsworth criticizes England’s church, army, people/home, and literature. Their topics are similar but the way they write the poems is where their style defers one is a made up of 4 verses with 4 stanzas in each and the other one is a sonnet. Blake makes his poem more of a narrator walking and describing first person while Wordsworth makes his poem a letter in which he includes the problems of
The two poems share multiple similarities, including the underlying reason behind writing the odes. Both authors look longingly to deceased men to serve as examples of progress that needed to be made in their two countries. In “London, 1802,” Wordsworth is speaking to John Milton, an English poet and political writer. He expresses his concern for 18th century England, claiming that the English have become “selfish men” and losing sight of their heritage. With Milton’s help, Wordsworth states the English would be returned their “manners, virtue, freedom, power.” In “Douglass,” Dunbar is speaking to Frederick Douglass, an American writer and abolitionist leader, explaining how strong segregation and discrimination is, ...
The poem takes place in heaven, earthly paradise, and hell rather than on the traditional battlefield that we encounter in the Odyssey or the Iliad. Milton describes the earthly paradise as “The open field, and where the unpierced shade Embrowned the noontide bow’rs thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view…” (Milton 132). Instead of the protagonist battling mythological beasts or fighting off suitors who desire to take what is rightfully his, the hero faces a battle from within himself. These drastically different physical settings allow Milton to focus on going into depth regarding the trials of the human soul and the battle that wages within one between good and evil. Rather than valor on the battlefield or other great physical triumphs being what defines us Milton reveals the value of Christianity that faith must be the center of one’s life. This is where the true epic battle takes place and its outcome is what truly defines
Both London, 1802 by William Wordsworth and Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar are poems addressing the changes in conditions among their respective societies, London for Wordsworth and the United States for Dunbar. The poems are reactions to different time periods as both writers look upon the conditions of their societies and reminisce of better times as they long for the glory days of the past. London, 1802 and Douglass are poems that have several similarities among their content, however there are distinct differences between the two that the reader can pick up on as well.
Five different situations are suggested in "Lines" each divided into separate sections. The first section details the landscape around the abbey, as Wordsworth remembers it from five years ago. The second section describes the five-year lapse between visits to the abbey, during which he has thought often of his experience there. The third section specifies Wordsworth's attempt to use nature to see inside his inner self. The fourth section shows Wordsworth exerting his efforts from the preceding stanza to the landscape, discovering and remembering the refined state of mind the abbey provided him with. In the final section, Wordsworth searches for a means by which he can carry the experiences with him and maintain himself and his love for nature. .
London? and ? The Lamb? William Wordsworth, like Blake, was linked with Romanticism. In fact, he was one of the very founders of Romanticism. He wrote poems are about nature, freedom and emotion.
it was born of. This then gains the readers sympathy as something as pure. as a 'new born' is contaminated and ruined by the society that the monarcy creates a new. I feel that the poem 'London' effectively conveyed William Blakes anger. towards the society and his feelings about it.
Milton’s poetic license entitles him to write as he pleases and therefore justifies his adaptation of an allegory into his epic. It is clearly apparent that Milton recognizes this privilege when...
poem is about only a small snapshot of the city, when it is very quiet
?London? is a poem of serious social satire directed against social institutions. According to Blake author Michael Phillips ?it is a poem whose moral realism is so severe that it is raised to the intensity of apocalyptic vision.? Blake becomes more specific in his descriptions of the prevalent evil and moral decay of society as the poem progresses. Blake?s informative nature is clearly evident in ?London? as he ?points the finger? and exposes powerful institutions.
The poems ‘lines composed on Westminster Bridge’ and ‘London’ are created by William Wordsworth and William Blake respectively. Wordsworth’s work originated in the eighteenth century and he himself lived in the countryside, and rarely visited large cities such as London. This is reflected on his poem, making it personal to his experience in London, however William Blake on the other hand had a vast knowledge of London and was actually a London poet, which allowed him to express his views of London from a Londoner’s point of view. I therefore will be examining comparisons in both poems, as well as their contrasting views of London and the poetic devices used to express their opinions.
In "London", William Blake brings to light a city overrun by poverty and hardship. Blake discards the common, glorifying view of London and replaces it with his idea of truth. London is nothing more but a city strapped by harsh economic times where Royalty and other venues of power have allowed morality and goodness to deteriorate so that suffering and poverty are all that exist. It is with the use of three distinct metaphors; "mind-forg'd manacles", "blackning Church", and "Marriage hearse", that Blake conveys the idea of a city that suffers from physical and psychological imprisonment, social oppression, and an unraveling moral society.
... with Us. Lastly, Wordsworth’s poem London, 1802 also shows his fear of premature mortality of the imagination. All of these works contain his fear of losing imagination and how man should return to nature.
William Blake uses repetition, rhyming and imagery in his poem to help promote the idea that London, England is not the city that people dream that it is, the city itself can be a
understand the points that Milton was trying to get across. An intricate poem can often be
In William Wordsworth’s poems, the role of nature plays a more reassuring and pivotal r ole within them. To Wordsworth’s poetry, interacting with nature represents the forces of the natural world. Throughout the three poems, Resolution and Independence, Tintern Abbey, and Michael, which will be discussed in this essay, nature is seen prominently as an everlasting- individual figure, which gives his audience as well as Wordsworth, himself, a sense of console. In all three poems, Wordsworth views nature and human beings as complementary elements of a sum of a whole, recognizing that humans are a sum of nature. Therefore, looking at the world as a soothing being of which he is a part of, Wordsworth looks at nature and sees the benevolence of the divinity aspects behind them. For Wordsworth, the world itself, in all its glory, can be a place of suffering, which surely occurs within the world; Wordsworth is still comforted with the belief that all things happen by the hands of the divinity and the just and divine order of nature, itself.