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Comparative Essay

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Comparing “London” to “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”

Both William Blake's 'London' and William Wordsworth's 'Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802' are about the poets’ perspective and thoughts towards the city. Both of the poems were written in 19th century which was the dawning of industrial revolution as when there were social and political changes, new technology, factories and new industrial system. At that time, many of the children were forced to work in the factories and more than one family was living in one apartment, most of the people were having a difficult time to live in an advanced industrialized society. William Blake and William Wordsworth both wrote a poem about this unfortunate incident, describes the city after the Industrial Revolution, even so two of them use different way to express it.

"London" has a clear message of dislike for the city, at the same time as "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" is using a friendlier way to a poem about London. In an article entitled "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" as the title to show people that the early morning’s comfortable silence and the air is smoke free, which is a lot different to the day time. Both of the poems used five beats in a line as it makes the line read like the speaking voice, Wordsworth’s poem has more strength cause of the exclamation. “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” is about Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy going to Calais and stopped on the Westminster Bridge. From this sentence, “This City now doth, like a garment, wear” It used personification to notify that the view of the city shocked Wordsworth, with the word “garment” signifies it’s non natural that is referring to the buildings and a city that was totally not nature but man-made. He hated London that became a dirty place and had changed so much during the Industrial Revolution, the people in the villages were even starved to death and everything was falling apart.

“Earth has not anything to show more fair:

Dull would he be of soul who could pass by”

These two lines are showing that William Wordsworth was surprised that London is beautiful in the early sunlight which conversely different from the reality. Also describes the sight standing on Westminster Bridge looking out the city, and says that there’s nothing more fairly than the sight he sees, and utter anyone passing through without pausing to see the beautiful scenery have a “dull soul”. The poem uses imagery mostly about nature such as “The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,” takes place in a beautiful morning sign of rebirth or a new start, and morning is natural because humans can’t decide night or day. Wordsworth uses many positive words like glittering, bright, glideth and splendour to add some special and new feelings to the poem. Line 7 to 13 are all talking describing clean and unpolluted city, the sun shining through nature, the river that glides along at a slow pace it chooses and this had never made him have such a deep clam before. This overall can see a result of that this poem is connecting nature to the society. The meaning behind line 13 and 14 is the city’s heart may seem busy during later of the day, but during the early hours, it was very calm and quiet. On the last line, it ends with exclamation to end it in a strong way.

On the other hand, “London” by William Blake is about Blake’s is more about the appearance and reality, it shows his feeling of this organized city with rich culture in fact everyone on the street have marks of sorrow during that time. He witnessed the suffering and unhappiness, in Stanza 1, “and mark in every face I meet,” symbolized that has seen many faces, but every faces are just the same expression. “marks of weakness, marks of woe” is the sign of sorrow on face as to emphasize the atmosphere. In stanza 2 repetition of “every” has symbolized the depression that hover the entire society. There is a clear difference of time between two poems. Wordsworth's is set in the bright morning, in fact Blake's is set in the dark night “The mind-forg’d manacles I hear” shows that the time was midnight. However Blake takes a very negative and hopeless view of the city and illustrates it in an obvious way. Indeed, he hated the way London was becoming and so did Wordsworth, but he was looking more negatively. On stanza 3, it converses about the religious and destruction caused by the war, the loss of innocence and the society’s abandonment of religion at that time. There are different “characters” appear in stanza 3 and 4, including chimney-sweepers, soldiers, harlots and plagues. All of the characters are complicated, the chimney-sweepers in the poem are crying, the helpless soldiers sigh, the young prostitutes curse, and new born baby burst in tears. This strongly created a sad atmosphere, with “Every black’ning Church appalls”, and “Runs in blood down Palace walls” created a dead imagery of the soldiers.

On both of the poems, showed that Blake's view of the city is a negative one where as Wordsworth's view of the city is that he sees it as a thing of natural beauty. As we can now, a huge contrast between the way that the poems talks about their resentful to the change of London.

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