Comparing London by William Blake and Westminster Bridge by William Wor

Comparing capital of the United Kingdom by William Blake and Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth William Blake was born in London in 1757. He was taught by his mother at home, and became an apprentice to an engraver at fourteen. In amplification to poetry Blake spent much of his time painting. Blake lived on the edge of meagreness and died in neglect. His poetry receiving little acclaim while he was alive. London was written by Blake in 1789. Taken from Blakes Songs of Experience, the agency is darker and in a sense depressing. It describes the city after the Industrial Revolution. Blake takes a very negative and hopeless view of the city and the lives of those living inwardly it. He hated the way London was becoming, looking negatively on business and materialism. Blake felt himself as still, and the poem is a comment on others living in London. In the first line of the first stanza, he creates immediate effect as he contrasts the intelligenc e agencys wander with getd, which he goes on to use to describe the Thames River in the pursuance line. Wander suggests a sense of naturally meandering in an afford expanse, contrasting greatly with the latter, which referring to the city itself, suggests a sense of narrow wrap in space. This description leads the reader to envisage a regulated and trammel city, limited by business and materialism. Blake goes on to describe the charterd Thames does flow. This is ironic in the sense that any flow seems to be curb by the banked in and concreted image of the river that the poet creates there is nothing natural or beautiful about the Thames any longer. Equally Blakes repetition of the word mark, while us... ...r for what she does in order to make a living. This is ironic because the business of prostitution is caused in part by the restrictions placed upon the married man. It is overly ironic because the married man is what has created the need for , and use of prostitutes. The harlot curses the respectable and polite society because it is they who have created the demand for her, and then look prevail over upon what she does. Blights with plagues implies that perhaps she also infects them with some clear of sexually transmitted disease, conceivably as a pillowcase of vengeance upon those who shun her. The final linguistic process of the poem, Marriage hearse compares marriage to death. The narrator sees marriage as another type of restriction placed upon man by society, marriage is a sort of death in mans ability to be free to do as he wishes.