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Compare and contrast, the ways in which Blake and Wordsworth present the city, in ‘London’ and ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’. How effectively do they present their views, throughout these poems?
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Compare and contrast, the ways in which Blake and Wordsworth present the city, in 'London' and 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge'. How effectively do they present their views, throughout these poems? In their poems Blake and Wordsworth both present the city of London in very dissimilar ways. They use very different structures and imagery. Throughout the poem Blake gives a negative impression of the city, whereas Wordsworth, doing the opposite, gives a positive impression of it and almost writes a love poem to London. They obviously see the city in a contrasting way because they even talk about contrasting aspects of the city, with Blake focusing on the people walking through it and Wordsworth seeing the natural beauty surrounding it. Blake and Wordsworth may have been influenced by other people, such as Hogarth a painter during Blake's time; as it is very likely that he would have seen his works, or those...
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