Compare and contrast the Romantic visions in 'London'' by William Blake and 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' by William Wordsworth.

Although the poems London by William Blake and Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth be both about the city of London they are very different in some(prenominal) ways. Throughout this essay I will be equivalence and contrasting the romantic visions found within each of them, their purpose of stylistic features and how they reflect the Romantic period.

The poem London is about a man wandering through the streets of London sharing his thoughts and views on how corrupt society is. This poem carries a very demoralized view of London. He sees people everywhere with expressions of sadness and depression. He feels as if the people have corrupted themselves by the rehearse of the metaphor mind-forgd manacles(line 8), meaning that it is something man-made, something they themselves have created and something only they can pat themselves for. By our outlook on life we have ferment trapped, by the way we let these negative feelings consume us and how we let ourselves slip into such a deep conjure of depression, the only freedom is optimism and happiness yet it seems so faraway from reach.



By the use of the phrase In every ring of every man(line 5), only heightens the sense of pessimism as it seems to imply people crying out for help, crying out in agony for they are so fed up with the lives they are living and long for a drastic change, for euphoriant lives. It is stated in the poem that men used to require the go of prostitutes to release their carnal desires probably because they saw their wives as sweet and sincere and therefore did not want to corrupt them. The Harlots curse (line 13), refers to genital disease that was passed on to these men by the prostitutes who then septic their wives...

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