Saturday, February 2, 2019
Compare and contrast the three portrayals of London in Blakeââ¬â¢s :: English Literature
Compare and secern the three portrayals of capital of the United Kingdom in BlakesLondon, Wordsworths Composed Upon Westminster Bridge andJohnsons Inglan Is A Bitch.==============================================================In London, Blake creates the image that London is a very gloomful put. He describes it, as having mapped out streets, even the riverThames is not flowing on its natural route, the whole place isunnatural, and false. All Blake can see is failure bothwhere. Thisis made very clear by the repetition of the word everyIn every cry of every man,In every babes cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forgd manacles I hear.He uses repetition to get the depicted object across that he sees real miseryeverywhere he looks, and in everything he hears. It gets the messageinto your mind. Also, in every ban is a public declaration, enounceingthat everything to the highest degree the place is made so that people are miserable.Blake goes on to say how London is a very dirty place blackning church appals creates the image of dirt creation everywhere, even onchurches, which are unremarkably seen as places that are not left to getdirty.Clearly, Blake does not corresponding London, and uses imagery to show this. With use of repetition, vivid images of the dirty, and miserable placehe sees are created.Wordsworth however, has a very different arise to London. He seesit as the finest place on Earth, and that never before has he seen aplace that really is so beautiful as London. He says that if you dontsee London as being like this, then you bring in no soul, no feelings. There is a very positive approach to the poem. The beauty of themorning and majesty utilize to build a effigy of what he sees. Likea garment is a simile used to make it sound alive.Here you see a complete contrast to the way Blake sees London. Blakes misery and dullness, now seen as happiness and beauty. Wordsworth describes the Thames as being very natural, as flowing ati ts own will. Blake describes it as chartered, and unnatural. Acomplete contrast. In Wordsworths poem, there is no dirt, just sluttishsmokeless air. The buildings are alive in Wordsworths poem, butnot in Blakes. It is as if the two poets, are writing nearly acompletely different place, even though they are writing about thesame place at around the same time, the 19th century.However, and master(prenominal) factor we can take into account, is the time ofday that the poems are describing. Wordsworths poem is written earlyin the morning, just as the sunlight is rising.
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