Blake has a strong and personal view on love because he feels that men are changing women in to a possession and they are being used. Blake used “marriage” and “hearse” in his poem because I think that he feels that when women get married to a man it is meant for a fresh beginning. He also used hearse in the same line in which means death. I personally think he used “marriage” and “hearse” to state a fact that death is linked with the cycle of fresh beginnings in some type of way.
Blake lets his anger out on the Royals and the Political party. He quotes that there is soldier’s blood running down the palace walls. He is also highlighting the royals as being uncaring and he is also stating the injustice of them. He lashes out at the politicians as being “mind-forged manacles” and demanding that the poor do and say whatever they want them too. In a way I think that they are making the poor people feel like a prisoner in their own mind.
Blake set his poem on the night so that he could force the poverty London was in. He states that London as being a place of murkiness and he quotes about the prostitutes “youthful harlots curse”. He describes them as being young women on the street trying to make a living. Blake describes London very carefully by describing it as being “depressing”. Blake feels that London is at the problem of a growth industry and that none of the poorer citizens views are being herd.
William Wordsworth`s poem is the opposite to Blake’s because he sees London as being a very happy and positive poem and he is explaining London at the crack of dawn in the morning “all bright and glittering in the smokeless air”. William is stating that the morning sun is glittering and shining over the buildings and the windows. He also describes that at the crack of dawn there is no smoke in the air not like Blake stating that there is murkiness in the air.
Wordsworth quotes, “Never did the sun more beautifully steep”. I think he feels a great pleasure of waking up in the morning and feeling the suns warmth and presence. Blake sees London as a dark and vile place in poverty but Wordsworth sees London in the opposite light.
“The beauty of the morning silent, bare” Wordsworth states that he sees London as a silent place where as Blake states that he sees London as a loud Place and not quiet with
“The youthful harlots curse” and “the chimney sweepers cry”.
Wordsworth states “ne`eer saw I never felt a calm so deep”. Wordsworth feels very relaxed and he is moved at ease whereas Blake feels depressed and sad to see the poverty London is in and he also feels strongly for the children of London.
Wordsworth quotes” the very houses seem asleep and all mighty heart is lying still”. He is stating that he enjoys getting up before anybody else and that it is a very relaxed place to be in. Blake sees it in a very different light because of the child labour and he strongly feels that the children get no rest and that they do not have a normal happy child hood. Wordsworth is very different to Blake because he thinks that London is in no place of poverty and there is no child labour because I think that Wordsworth thinks the children do get a child hood and London is not at the problem of a growth industry. I think Blake feels the opposite because Blake feels very depressed at the way he sees London and feels deep sympathy for the poor people as well as the children.
From the 2 poets poems I personally think that Blake had a troubled problem of growing up in the rough end of London as a child and he was at the mercy of child labour grew up with the. Whereas Wordsworth I think grew up with a nice family with money and didn’t have to face the child labour and the poverty of growing up in Blake’s world of London.
