London and Composed on Westminster Bridge

The two poems give a excellent visual description of London in very different ways; in Blake's poem he describes the city as a slum while Wordsworth's poem he describes London as a beautiful place in the hours of morning.

In Blake's description he gives the impression that London is corrupt. He shows this with very strong visual images.

In the first stanza he describes the "charted streets". This gives the impression that the city has something to do with business by using: "The charter'd Thames doth flow": charter'd implying that the river is a port. Later he uses the words to describe how people are unhappy "marks of weakness, marks of woe." This gives a strong image that people are unhappy and he can see it on the people's faces He does this by using repetition of the word "marks".

In the second stanza he uses repetition of the word "every":

This implies that all of the people are unhappy. Blake implies that the people are trapped in thei

In Wordsworth's Composed on Westminster Bridge he gives the impression that London is a beautiful clean place .

The last line is "And all that mighty heart is lying still". This is another form of personification he is describing the city as something so strong but is so still and fragile and he is describing how beautiful it is.

He then writes "Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!" This suggests that Wordsworth had never felt so calm watching a sun rise.

Blake uses strong rhyme ant the end of each line rhyming with the other line for example: Street, meet. Fear, hear. Man, ban. Most times the two words relate to each other. The words relate like this: in the first stanza the words "street, meet" as in meeting on the street, then he uses "fear hear", he hears the fear. Most of the rhyming couplets relate like this.

This implies that there must be something wrong with you if the sight of London does not make you feel something.

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Approximate Word count = 1201
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)