In the poem Compose upon Westminster Bridge and London the poets present
two very different.
In the poem Compose upon Westminster Bridge and London the poets
present two very different and contrasting views of the same city.
William Wordsworth view of London is positive and optimistic. William
Blake on the other hand presents a very negative dismal picture of the
city.
William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and has always had a love of
nature. He studied at Cambridge University, which later helped him to
become the writer he always wanted to be. In 1787he wrote for the
European magazine. In 1970 Wordsworth had an affair with a French girl
who inspired him to write poetry but he still kept a close contact
with his natural surroundings.
Some of wordsworths best poems were under the title of The Prelude
which was made up of Philosophical autobiographical poems in 1778
completed in 1805 but only only became published in 1850 also whilst
on a trip in Germany he was inspired by nature and its natural
surroundings to write more poems.
Later on in life Wordsworth abandoned his radical ideas and became a
patriotic, conservative public man. He then died in 1850.
William Blake was born in 1957. Blake grew up in London and spent most
of his life there, been educated by his mother .Not only did he become
a poet but he was also a painter visionary mystic and an engraver he
also printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the
imagination over treating reason as the basic of belief and knowledge
of the 18th century but failed to understand how shadowed his career
actually was. Later on he experienced visions of angels and ghostly
monks. He had his first book of poems in 1783 called poetical sketches
and was followed by songs of innocence and songs of experience. His
most famous poem was “The Tyger” as he wrote from a child’s
understanding of London, Blake lived a prosperous life he didn’t leave
himself any debts at the end of his career or life in 1827.
William Wordsworth view of London is good as he looks at the beauty of
the town and describes what the town is like using positive vocabulary
which makes the poem sound strong also it helps you to visualise its
surroundings. When I read this poem it made me feel that nothing could
get as beautiful as London could as he sees it for what is made of
“the fairest site on earth” and makes you want to be there as it
sounds like a “grand” place to be.
For my poetry paper I chose to examine poetry from the family album. The family album stood out to me significantly because I thoroughly enjoyed all of the poems because I had a personal connection with it. Family has always been an important part of my life and I think this particular album speaks volume. This album has many levels to it, some deeper than others. I feel that from reading poetry, it expands our ability to think and form ideas that we would have not thought about before. Poetry gives readers the ability to make connections on a deeper level and see things from a different perspective. The two poems that spoke to me in this album specifically were “Those Winter Sundays” By Robert Hayden and “Begotten” by Andrew Hudgins. These two poems are both similar because they are from a son’s point of view, talking about their parent(s). “Those Winter Sundays” was one of my all-time favorite poems from this album because it shows a hard working father who is dedicated to his family, but does not get any recognition for his hard work.
One poet who was found immense success in the last twenty years in Elizabeth Alexander.An African American woman, Alexander published her first collection of poetry in 1995 and has continued to produce outstanding works since then. Elizabeth Alexander is well known for her poems because of the skillful use of techniques such as diction, enjambment, and asyndeton. In addition, Alexander has garnered attention by adhering to traditional topics such as family, motherhood, and love. Yet, her work does not fit all of the conventional expectations of poetry. Alexander defies expectations by the lack of rhyme or consistent structure in her poems. Nevertheless, I personally find Elizabeth Alexander’s poems of witnessing and stream of consciousness
The collection about Thomas and Beulah was my favorite of the three that we read. I really enjoyed reading the poems about there relationship and trying to understand the dynamics within it. After reading it and giving it some thought, I believe that Thomas and Beulah had a marriage full of love. However I also believe that they lacked something else very important to any relationships especially marriage, respect. I do not think that this was a conscious or deliberate choice made by either I just think that after years of being together they lost sight of what was really important.
Question 1, page 305 In the poem Commitments by the author Essex Hemphill, the speaker begins with the announcement “I will always be there” and yet later he says “I am the invisible son”. These two statements can be reconciled because the first statement refers to the speaker’s physical presence and the latter one refers to his physiological state of mind. So when the speaker says “I will always be there”, he is very much referring to the fact that he’ll always attend family events, and will fulfill his commitments, if we look at the family picture everything appears to be normal it pretty much appears as a normal American family, as the speaker tells us “nothing appears out of character” (line 34). However, the speaker also feels like he is the invisible because on the inside, his family will never know how he feels. The speaker knows that he’ll never get married and he knows his family wouldn’t understand his reason for not getting married, therefore invisible in that sense, his family doesn’t know how he feels.
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal [but] which the reader recognizes as his own." (Salvatore Quasimodo). There is something about the human spirit that causes us to rejoice in shared experience. We can connect on a deep level with our fellow man when we believe that somehow someone else understands us as they relate their own joys and hardships; and perhaps nowhere better is this relationship expressed than in that of the poet and his reader. For the current assignment I had the privilege (and challenge) of writing an imitation of William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 87". This poem touched a place in my heart because I have actually given this sonnet to someone before as it then communicated my thoughts and feelings far better than I could. For this reason, Sonnet 87 was an easy choice for this project, although not quite so easy an undertaking as I endeavored to match Shakespeare’s structure and bring out his themes through similar word choice.
The modern age was derived out of a cruel Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution era, many cities grew to be based on industrial factories. Even though the Industrial Revolution created many low wage jobs, it also created a tremendous about of pollution and destroyed the environment. People moved away from quaint farming towns, with horses and entire families working on the farm (Document C). These people moved into bustling towns like Manchester (Document D) with smoke stacks lining the town. People thought moving would be for the better, that’s what everybody thought in the beginning. In William Wordsworth’s poem “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”, he describes a contrasting view on the detrimental effects
“Immigrants at central station, 1951”, this poem is about the Skrzynecki family waiting to depart on a train at central station to a migrant. The first stanza describes the time and the atmosphere of the where the family were the family is situated. The poem begins by capturing a brief moment in time from the whistle declaring its arrival to the scene of leaving with it. “It was sad to hear the train’s whistle this morning” these words provoke sadness where it usually brings joy. This tell us that the Skrzynecki family were sad due to the fact that they were about to travel to the unknown. “All night it had rained.” The imagery in the first stanza is depressing, the poems tone here is sad. As the poem goes on it says, “But we ate it all” the metaphor here is used for positiveness. No matter how depressed they were they still enjoyed it. The second stanza is about
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.
In line 17 the word “hearse” is used as a car to take the bride to the
of London. Maybe it is a genuine love poem to his mistress, a sort of
When I was in middle school, we were taught to proofread assignments as well as running them through spell check in Word. At the time, I had no idea that spell check was not a proper fix for determining spelling or grammatical errors, homophonic errors, sentence fragments, as well as the suggestions provided, are not always as helpful to the piece overall. I remember submitting an English assignment where we were to choose a nursery rhyme, research the history behind it, and create a fictional essay based off the song. The nursery rhyme I had chosen was “London Bridge”, and my essay was about a family who lived in a bakery and their stories as their local bridge burnt down. Towards the end of the essay there was a glimmer of hope among the
living we enjoy in the United States is a result of the fact that we,
poem is about only a small snapshot of the city, when it is very quiet
How London is Portrayed in Composed upon Westminster Bridge and London. William Wordsworth's poem, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" written in 1832. 1904 looks at the positive side of London city and its natural beauty. Whereas William Blake wrote the poem, "London" in 1794, the poem is negative. towards authority and politics.
The Daffodils and Upon Westminster Bridge Both " The Daffodils" and " Upon Westminster Bridge" were written around the turn of the 19th century in Georgian times to illustrate William Wordsworth's view of the Natural World. " Upon Westminster Bridge" illustrates the poet's view on the city of London. Wordsworth is able to appreciate and see the magnificence in a normal bustling city. He is in awe at the scenic beauty of the morning sun, radiating from London's great architectural marvels. To give the sense of calm he uses the adjectives silent, smokeless to underline that it is early in the morning and London is beautiful because the factories are sleeping, there is no pollution and the city is not dirty.