Wordsworth is written in 1802 and describes more of the architecture and the buildings that he can see from the distance it can look rich and wealthy from the outside but this is just a mask of the grime London in the streets and the decaying horrible society that London has been moulded into. Wordsworth’s poem is less straight forward and you have to dig deep to find the hidden meaning which is found as after a while of all the praise it turns into sarcasm he also write his poem as a Sonnet. Sonnets are usually to do with love, so writing his as a sonnet shows love for the capital and that he makes it out to be beautiful “the beuty of the morning silent bare ships towers domes theatres and temples” this shows it is a great city with many attractions and great features. He is very quick to praise London
Blake conveys his feelings towards London, by using words like 'woe', 'blood', 'and plagues ‘and’hapless’. These words give the reader a feeling of suffering, oppression and corruption, which help create a dark and negative mood. He condemns the government and royal family by saying 'Runs in blood down palace walls'. This shows us that he thinks the government and royalty are useless and that they are using the poor to make London a greater city. There is a contrast between the rich and the poor here the word 'blood' suggesting the dying and suffering of the poor, and the word 'palace' suggesting the comfortable lives of the rich. He notices a mark in "every face I meet "Marks of wisdom, marks of woe." This evidence of scars of weakness and great sadness in faces contrasts with the peaceful and happy atmosphere Wordsworth gave to London.
Wordsworth is like he gushing with his praise for the capital he also using personification by making the house to be as if it was sleeping and makes London as the heart of England “ and all that the mighty heart is lying still”. Wordsworth compares the beauty of the sun shinning in the sky to the theatres and domes glittering in the London air. Wordsworth uses positive adjectives in front of nouns about nature in order to give an admirable impression on London through links with nature. For example "Never did the sun look so beautifully steep".
In Blake’s London the description of the "blackening church" shows the soot taking over London and the church becoming almost evil, involved with dirty money or becoming corrupt. Showing even the church is starting to lose its faith. Another large part of London life is also criticised, "the hapless soldier's 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. Furthermore his reference to the "mind-forg'd manacles" in cry's of "every man" and "Infant's cry of fear" he is referring to the fake, made up manacles that he cannot actually see but it as if people are trapped and chain or as if in a prison.
Wordsworth uses phrases such as 'bright and glistening in the smokeless air' and 'The beauty of the morning; silent, bare' to set a scene of calm glistening beauty, to set a scene of a kind of fairy-tale wonderland. Wordsworth shows the reader how the surroundings make him feel by commenting 'Ne'er I saw, never felt, a calm so deep!' this gives a further direct calming effect on the reader.
Blake contrasts the third verse with the 4th final verse, 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 harlot's curse" there is a lot of prostitution going on another sign of a grime, dirty, unlawful city.
Although what I have explained about Wordsworth’s poem as it is a great city and that he is very full in his praise if you look beyond this you can see a massive hints of sarcasm and that he is actually saying that the capital is a horrible and corrupted just like Blake. He is so forward in praise that he is being fake and that the perfections of the capital is how it can be perceived from the outside but inside is as dreadful as Blake makes it. I can conclude that from the extent of wordsworth sarcasm is a mask that if you look beyond it he is also slagging London off just like Blake.