Comparison between “London” by William Blake and “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” by William Wordsworth The city of London has inspired many poets throughout the ages. Two of the most distinctive portrayals are William Blake’s “London” published in Songs of Experience in 1974 and “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge‚ September 3‚ 1802” by William Wordsworth. While both Blake and Wordsworth comment on the conflict between appearance and reality‚ Blake shows the gloomy ugliness by taking down London’s
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first generation are William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ P. Coleridge‚ Robert Burns. And the second generation is Shelley‚ Keats‚ and Byron. Wordsworth is the most famous of the romantic poets and his most productive years took only ten years although he had lived 80 years. He was a great supporter of French Revolution. The main differences between Coleringe and Wordsworth is that Coleridge believes in education and was fond of reading whereas Wordsworth believes in the education of nature and did
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The Flower-Fed Buffaloes and Report to Wordsworth have a common theme. The thematic links between them are how humans are destroying the world and killing nature. In Report to Wordsworth‚ Boey is revealing the lack of respects humans have towards the nature nowadays. In Lindsay’s poem‚ the subject matter is how the buffaloes are disappearing from the spring fields due to the invasion of humans. The Flower-Fed Buffaloes is an effective title. Not only the alliteration of ‘f” can emphasise the buffaloes
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Essay #1: A Close Reading of William Wordsworth´s “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge‚ September 3‚ 1802” The poem‚ a Petricharan sonnet‚ “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge‚ September 3‚ 1802” by William Wordsworth describes the view from Westminster Bridge in an early morning sunlight and represents the image even more the beauty of London city in a very positive and peaceful way. The speaker achieves to produce an image in the reader´s mind that is so clear‚ that the reader is able to picture himself
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with the beginnings of the profession that we today call engineering and numerous advances in astronomy and mathematics (Bunch and Hellemans 233). A common theme of W. Wordsworth was that these changes were both harmful to the human nature and alienating to the “common man.” In order to truly investigate the views of Wordsworth‚ one must first understand the context of the time period‚ and in order to do that we must first look to the Enlightenment era and the changes in thinking that it brought
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and William Blake (1757-1827) were both romantic poets. Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th Century. Blake and Wordsworth tended to write about the same things such as nature‚ people and structures‚ such as cities like London. Emotions also played a big part in romantic poems. Often poets would be inspired by a simple view and would write a masterpiece about it. For example‚ Wordsworth lived in the Lake District for
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THE DAFFODILS by William Wordsworth William Wordsworth was an avid observer of nature. In this poem‚ he describes the impression a cluster of daffodil flowers created in his mind when he saw them while taking a stroll beside a lake hemmed by some trees. 1st stanza .. The beauty of the daffodils lifted his mind and his spirit. His imagination and his poetic instincts came to the fore. He could see himself as a cloud floating past the golden- coloured daffodils on the ground where some
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"To a Sky-Lark" was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1820. Shelley was prime a philosopher and wrote some political texts. He was a poet of the nineteenth century‚ he was born in 1792 and was drowned at 30 in 1822. This poem is an extended metaphor of the sky-lark representing freedom of expression : a theme very close to Shelley’s philosophy. Here‚ the poet persona thinks and shows that this bird is superior to the human race. This essay will focus on how Shelley expresses this superiority. First
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sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge 3rd September 1802" is a ’momentary poem’ written when the coach on which he and his sister Dorothy were travelling to London to board a ship to Paris paused on the Westminster Bridge across the Thames. Wordsworth describes what he sees‚ thinks and feels on a specific day at a specific moment. Had September 3‚ 1802‚ been a dismal day of rain‚ fog or overcast skies‚ we would not have this lyric to enjoy. The mood and atmosphere of Blake’s "London‚" written
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written in the romantic era which looks upon changes that need to happen and looks away from those to the places which haven¡¯t been affected by the misery of the world. ¡®Composed Upon Westminster Bridge¡¯ is a typical romantic sonnet expressing Wordsworth¡¯s love for the beauty and amazement of London. This is in much contrast to ¡®God¡¯s Grandeur¡¯ in which Hopkins expresses his feelings towards the beauty of nature in comparison to the wretchedness of man. Both poems have endeavoured to use their
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