“Lines composed upon Westminster bridge, Sept. 3 1802” and “London” Essay

These two metrical compositions show very different views of capital of the United Kingdom. Lines constitute upon Westminster Bridge, written by William Wordsworth, strings London in detail. He captures the beautified metropolis and expresses the im tump overibility of the morning. William Blake, who lived around the same time, wrote London which expresses the chaotic and corrupt aspect of London.Wordsworth describes the city in much detail. A sight so mournful in its majesty. The Earth has not anything to show to a greater extent fair. He expresses his true(p) emotional state ab pop the city from where he sees it.He goes on to pose the city and describe how it doth like a garment wear The strike of the morning silent, b be. He has captured the city in the morning when it is quiesce and in a sense almost naked with no unrivalled yet bustling through the streets, there are no skunk engulfed traffic jams or shouting street salesmen. There is only the sedateness of the morning.All the man made object glasss and buildings, such as ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie cave in unto the fields and to the sky. The man built objects remain where they were left not yet be riding habitd by Londoners.The atmosphere is sublime, the sun is however rising and soaking anything in its light, Never did sun more beautifully steep Neer saw I, never felt, a take root so deep the scene is so peaceful he is go throughing peace within himself.The natural body of the city, the river, is gliding in its avow devoid management, the way it wants the river glideth at its own sweet will Its free will is moving it naturally through the city as though it were the countryside. The river has also been personified to give more emphasis of its freedom. He is so overwhelmed by the atmosphere and calmness of the city. Dear God The very houses seem unaware everywhere he sees is not yet awake, again he has personified an object to give it more emphasis.His last( a) tilt is describing the city as a mighty heart that is lying still. The capital, like the giant utensil of a heart is just lying still.The aim from the poem is to describe the amazement he sees when looking over a massive city and seeing the calmness. He wants to express to others how peaceful and calm it makes him feel and pass that look on to the reader.The original two stanzas describe what the city is like, and what he sees around him. The sestet after this shows his personal response to what he has already described and how he feels about the city.Blake presents a much more depressing, ghoulish scene of London describing the corruptness of everything in the city. He is describing the attitudes and reds on in London that are normally never spoken about, the things which people may or may not know only which go on behind closed doors. A lot of repetition is used, contradictory in Wordsworths poem, to give emphasis to the points which he is trying to make. In every cry, of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every phonate he only lists one example in each line but gives the effect of a lot of crying and pain and fear.He speaks in a first hand account throughout the poem I wander, I hear, and I meet. By speaking in the present tense it makes the reader more prone to think it is spill on here and now however old the poem may be.By beginning the first line with I wander thro each chartered street It makes it easier to visualise what he is describing because it is a first hand account. The chartered streets are each set out neatly and ordered, the chartered Thames is also very regulated and gives the impression of it being divided and bought and sold.He notices a mark in every award I meet Marks of wisdom, marks of woe. This evidence of scars of weakness and owing(p) sadness in faces contrasts with the peaceful and happy atmosphere Wordsworth gave to London.He hears mind-forgd manacles in crys of every man and Infants cry of fear he is re ferring to the fake, made up manacles that he cannot in truth hear but knows that something is wrong.His repetition of cry continues to the next stanza where he duologue of chimney-sweepers which are doing the dirty, hardest jobs and suffering for their work, an example of the depressed and morbid London.The description of the black church shows the soot taking over London and the church fit almost evil, involved with dirty money or becoming corrupt. level the church is starting to lose its faith. other large part of London life is also criticised, the hapless soldiers sigh Runs in blood down palace walls. Fighting is going on around the palace but going unnoticed, the palace is oblivious to the corruptness going on inside its own walls.He contrasts the third stanza with the 4th final stanza, not only the church and palace and the huge industries of London are corrupt the streets are also. Thro the midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlots curse there is a lot of prostitu tion going on in the streets of London but was something that wasnt spoken about. The STDs, or curses blasts the sweet born infants tear. Implying that prostitutes pass on STDs and then these in turn get passed on to the newborn babies of those who have any disease. Another example of a corrupt system in London, which now make the innocent. And blights with plagues the sexual union hearse. Sleeping with prostitutes while married destroys the whole point of marriage and then if the partner becomes pregnant another generation is born into corruption. The use of hearse shows how marriage is carried away as though dead and not interpreted seriously.The extremely regular meter helps put across the ordered ship canal he describes the beginning. These chartered and regulated ways soon give way to the examples of how corruption is slowly taking over the whole city, the government, the church, the palace and the streets.The first poem also used a regular meter, which, also worked salutar y in describing the city peacefully and happily.The two poems contrast greatly in not what they describe but how they describe it. Wordsworth has a much more calming poem, which in effect leaves the reader much more calm and peaceful. This is unlike Blakes who describes so much evil and chaos going on, his poem leaves the reader much more depressed and almost repel with how the people and industries of London are behaving.Their use of language is also quite a different, Wordsworths entire poem is full of description of beauty, ardent and glittering and full of splendour. He uses very grand descriptions of everything unlike the descriptions of Blake, which are quite harsh and blunt, blasts the new born infants tear, blights with plagues and runs in blood down palace walls.I did enjoy both poems but preferred the first, Lines composed upon Westminster because of its use of more soothing, happy descriptions of London. It made me feel much more relaxed after reading it whereas London left me feeling slightly more depressed and sad. Although this may have been the aim of Blakes poem I preferred Wordsworths poem because it was much calmer.