Friday, May 31, 2019

Compare and Contrast the two poems, London and Composed Upon Westminste

Compare and Contrast the two poems, London and Composed Upon Westminster BridgeBoth of the poets write about London in their poems. There is one bangingdifference between the form and the structure Composed UponWestminster Bridge is written in the form of a sonnet where as theLondon poem is just a four verse poem, each verse having four lines.Comparing the poems with one an other I first picked up that they areequally written from first person perspectives which helps to expressthat these are the writers real thoughts and feelings of the greatcity. Blake doesnt concentrate on the general scene Like thebuildings or the natural landscapes, He sees beyond all this and hethinks of the people who live there. He explains how everyone is sadand hopelessly depressed, he points out the prostitutes have no othermeans of earning money than to sell themselves and how the soldiershave to put their lives on the line whenever the king decides. Hemakes it interesting as he uses a lot of repeatin g in each stanza toemphasize his views, in every cry of every man...

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