Compare and contrast Turner's "It's great to be Back" and Blake's "London"
I will be comparing and contrasting two famous poems by William Blake and Steve Turner. They are both poets who are writing about cities. Blake's poem is a lot older as it was written in the seventeenth century and Turner's poem is modern and so there is a big difference between the two in languages. This is because language changes lot over the years and so would have developed differently. I will be describing the different tones in the languages and how the two poets write and portray the good and bad side of the cities etc.
Turner uses repetitions in this poem. He uses words such as "Everyone", and "I", as he is talking about everyone in America. The word "I" is referring to the things that he likes. Turner makes use of the old folk song "Home on the Range." He is making out that the country is good when it is actually bad.
I will be comparing and contrasting two famous poems by William Blake and Steve Turner. They are both poets who are writing about cities. Blake's poem is a lot older as it was written in the seventeenth century and Turner's poem is modern and so there is a big difference between the two in languages. This is because language changes lot over the years and so would have developed differently. I will be describing the different tones in the languages and how the two poets write and portray the good and bad side of the cities etc.
Turner uses repetitions in this poem. He uses words such as "Everyone", and "I", as he is talking about everyone in America. The word "I" is referring to the things that he likes. Turner makes use of the old folk song "Home on the Range." He is making out that the country is good when it is actually bad.