Compare and contrast the three portrayals of London in Blake’s :: English Literature

Compare and contrast the three portrayals of capital of the United Kingdom in BlakesLondon, Wordsworths Composed Upon Westminster Bridge andJohnsons Inglan Is A Bitch.==============================================================In London, Blake creates the image that London is a very grim send out. He describes it, as having mapped out streets, even the riverThames is not flowing along its natural route, the consentient place isunnatural, and false. All Blake can soak up is misery everywhere. Thisis made very clear by the repetition of the word everyIn every address of every man,In every infants cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forgd manacles I hear.He uses repetition to remove the message across that he sees real miseryeverywhere he looks, and in everything he hears. It gets the messageinto your mind. Also, in every ban is a semipublic declaration, sayingthat everything near the place is made so that people are miserable.Blake goes on to say how London is a v ery dirty place dourningchurch appals creates the image of dirt being everywhere, even onchurches, which are normally seen as places that are not left to getdirty.Clearly, Blake does not wish well London, and uses imagery to show this. With use of repetition, vivid images of the dirty, and miserable placehe sees are created.Wordsworth however, has a very different approach to London. He seesit as the finest place on Earth, and that never before has he seen aplace that really is so beautiful as London. He says that if you dontsee London as being like this, then you have no soul, no feelings. There is a very positive approach to the metrical composition. The beauty of themorning and loftiness used to build a picture of what he sees. Likea garment is a simile used to make it sound alive.Here you see a complete contrast to the way Blake sees London. Blakes misery and dullness, now seen as happiness and beauty. Wordsworth describes the Thames as being very natural, as flowing atits testify will. Blake describes it as chartered, and unnatural. Acomplete contrast. In Wordsworths poem, there is no dirt, just cleansmokeless air. The buildings are alive in Wordsworths poem, stillnot in Blakes. It is as if the two poets, are writing about acompletely different place, even though they are writing about thesame place at around the same time, the 19th century.However, and important factor we can take into account, is the time ofday that the poems are describing. Wordsworths poem is written earlyin the morning, just as the sun is rising.