The writer makes London sound so beautiful. I think he is besotted by London and he shows it in the poem, he uses phrases like.
“In his first splendour valley rock or hill.”
“All bright glittering in the smokeless air”
“The river glideth at its own sweet will”
The writer’s mood is very positive and proud, he feels very proud about the city he has visited and he wants everyone else to see how good it is. He even goes to the extent of saying he is personified. He is definitely not realistic, as the way he describes London is not realistic.
The poem is constructed in a very positive and up beat way. He uses very lavish and up-beat words like “splendour” “fair” “beautiful” just to name a few he write it as if he writes it to someone he admires, and this is why he portrays London as being beautiful. The poem is also set in the form of a sonnet.
Blake’s poem is very different as it shows London in a pessimistic view of London. He uses words like “blood” “blackening” “harlots curse”. He uses every a lot suggesting that everyone is effected by it.
“Every blackening church appals”
“Every infants cry o fear”
“Every cry of every man”
The poem is set in the streets of London in 1794 also during the industrial revolution. He is able to see London from the people’s perspective.
The people in the poem are said to be in horrible conditions. He talks about prostitutes and old war heroes forgotten about and left to die. He talks about how the children suffer in the streets.
“In every cry of every man”
“In every infants cry of fear”
“How the youthful harlots curse blasts the new born infants tear”
He describes how s.t.i’s are passed onto the child of the prostitute.
“And the hapless soldiers cry”
He talks about how the soldiers are left to die after they have fought in a war for their country.
London is made to sound bad in the poem, and perhaps it was. He feels passionately about the fact that people are being mistreated. Nothing he says is positive he says that everything he sees is a tale of woe.
“And mark every face I meet marks of weakness marks of woe.”
Overall he makes London sound horrible gruesome ands evil.
The poem is structured pessimistically, he writes it as if he wants the reader to shout. It is set in a four-part four-verse format. Every thing is emphasised negatively. He writes it as if it is hell on earth. Every last word in every second line in both the second and third paragraphs rhyme.
The Blake and Wordsworth poems are completely different, and the only comparison they have is that they are both talking about London. One is pessimistic and one is positive, one is in the streets of London and one just sees an overview of London. One was written in 1802 and one written in 1794. I conclude that the two poems are completely different and that they don’t agree on anything.
