William
Blake's "London" and Wordsworth's "" are both about London. Blake's poem is
four stanzas of four lines each and Wordsworth's is in sonnet form.
In
Wordsworth's poem, he favorably describes London as it appears early in the morning. He begins
quite dramatically, saying that there is no sight "so fair" than this image of London
in the morning:
The City now doth, like a garment,
wearThe beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships,
towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto fields, and to the
sky;
The city wears the morning's beauty like a garment
in the morning, before people are awake, before the noise and erratic movement of city life. It
is also before the factories and furnaces are churning out smoke into the sky. The speaker notes
that the sun shines more beautifully on the buildings than it ever has on valleys, rocks, or
hills. This is ironic because much of Wordsworth's poetry is about the beauty of nature and
its...
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