SIMILAR AND DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE CITY IN “LONDON” BY WILLIAM BLAKE‚ COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE‚ SEPTEMBER 3‚ 1802” BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH‚ AND IN “IMPRESSION DU MATIN” BY OSCAR WILDE \ The image of the city appears in the literature of all cultural periods‚ but it often varies depending on historical context‚ prevailing ideas and the personal style of the author. City images dominate in the periods of Romantic and Decadent‚ however‚ the authors`
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the ways in which William Wordsworth presents London in ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’ with William Blake’s view of London in his poem ‘London’ Many people see London in different perspectives‚ both positive and negative in both poetry and prose. William Wordsworth and William Blake are two poets which expressed their views and opinions in many contrasting ways about London through poems and prose. The two poets discovered London and valued it in assorted ways. William Wordsworth was a tourist who
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William Wordsworth Essay – Midterm The bond between poet and nature is at the heart of Wordsworth’s poetry .Discuss. William Wordsworth was one of the most influential romantic poets in the early 18th century. Born on the 7th of April 1770‚ Wordsworth was a man with a profound love and admiration for nature that developed through the course of his life. From the 6 poems I have studied as part of my course‚ each and every one of them features the bond that Wordsworth has with nature. Through
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Essay to compare the Poem ‘London’ and ‘On Westminster bridge’ Both Wordsworth and Blake depict an image of London‚ but they present it through different perspectives. Their attitudes to London are completely different. While Wordsworth is the lover of nature‚ Blake is a social and political reformer. Thus‚ they have different purposes. The two poems "London" and ‘ Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ are intended to convey different to the reader. Blake has a more negative approach‚ this could be
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William Wordsworth poem‚ Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey July 13‚ 1798‚ is about a man returning‚ after fives years‚ to the beautiful scenery near the ruins of Tintern Abbey in Wales. He recalls how he once had such innocent views of nature when he was younger and how now that he had grown he ’d lost such sight. Near the end of the poem the speaker mentions his sister‚ Dorothy‚ only to make himself appear to be this wise man who takes his sister under his wings. He ensures her that
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“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey‚” by William Wordsworth‚ is a romantic poem that uses natural landscapes to induce an individual’s sublime emotional states. Sublime‚ according to Edmund Burke‚ is a profound emotional state experienced when someone is close to wild or dangerous events‚ but not directly in the path of danger. Carl Grosse‚ however‚ criticizes this definition and argues that danger only paralyzes the emotions and blocks sublime from emerging. By juxtaposing society with
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In his poem‚ “Lines Written in the Early Spring‚” William Wordsworth gives us insight into his views of the destruction of nature. Using personification‚ he makes nature seem to be full of life and happy to be living. Yet‚ man still is destroying what he sees as “Nature’s holy plan” (8). The entire poem is about the interaction between nature and man. Wordsworth is clearly not happy about the things that man has done to the world. He describes Nature in
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Essay on the Planners:- The Planners‚ a poem written by Boey Kim Cheng in Singapore.Boey Kim Cheng demonstrates this heartless modernization in his poem by using a constant perfect strait almost unnatural description of everything. The soullessness of Singapore is also portrayed in this poem by its perpetual effort to neglect and erase the past or any history of it‚ creating a facade of culture. This city is so soulless and synthetic that it’s not even considered part of nature. Boey Kim Cheng starts
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Literature II April 8‚ 2014 William Wordsworth There is no doubt that nature was the prodigious source of inspiration for William Wordsworth. Like many other romantic poets‚ he possessed great love for nature but unlike them he never expressed his anger for nature’s unkindness to him. Wordsworth started perceiving the nature closely and had a desire to give his feelings some words. Wordsworth enhanced his poetry with his outstanding imagination. William Wordsworth not only used nature‚ but also
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