Compare and contrast the representationof London by Blake in ‘London’ and Wordsworthin ‘Composed uponWestminster Bridge, 1802’
...ts the point across. Everyone suffers; it’s a universal feeling. He mentions… ‘In every infants cry of fear’ He creates a sense of innocence by mentioning a child corrupted by fear. Children are innocent and pure, by mentioning them he is saying even innocent children are suffering. In Wordsworth’s poem he mentions nothing of the sort. He writes ‘Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare’ Here Wordsworth is saying how beautiful London is. He is saying this is as good as it gets were as Blake is saying everyone is suffering, this could be because of the time of day it was written, Blake wrote his poem at midnight, Wordsworth wrote his in the morning. In the night all the fumes from that day are still lingering, there is blackness and this is the time when the harlots came out where as in Wordsworths poem its written in the morning, it is a fresh day and quite quiet as most people are asleep. The next line in Blake’s poem is… ‘The mind-forg’d manacles I hear’ This line is in the exact centre of the poem. This line slows down the rhythm of the lines before by using alliteration to focus the attention onto that line because of its great significance. This line means the people are restricted and cannot behave naturally like the river. Wordsworths poem mentions buildings this is how he sees them… ‘Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air, Never did sun more beautifully steep Never saw I, never felt, a calm so deep’ This is showing that the buildings open into the fields and sky and are a part of nature In Blake’s poem he says the buildings are restricting nature but Wordsworth says it’s a part of it. Wordsworth also says ‘Dear god! The very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still’ Wordsworth uses personification again to make it seem more real, to put an image into your head. Wordsworth mentions smokeless air this is because it was written in the morning....