Compare and Contrast the Impression
             London and Composed on Westminster Bridge
             The two poems give a excellent visual description of London in very different ways; in Blake's poem he describes the city as a slum while Wordsworth's poem he describes London as a beautiful place in the hours of morning.
             In Blake's description he gives the impression that London is corrupt. He shows this with very strong visual images.
             In the first stanza he describes the "charted streets". This gives the impression that the city has something to do with business by using: "The charter'd Thames doth flow": charter'd implying that the river is a port. Later he uses the words to describe how people are unhappy "marks of weakness, marks of woe." This gives a strong image that people are unhappy and he can see it on the people's faces He does this by using repetition of the word "marks".
             In the second stanza he uses repetition of the word "every":
             In every voice, in every ban"
             This implies that all of the people are unhappy. Blake implies that the people are trapped in their own minds by using "the mind-forg'd manacles I hear." 'Mind forg'd' gives the impression that their minds are clouded, and manacles implies that they are imprisoned.
             In the third stanza Blake suggests that there is slavery with "How the chimney-sweeper's cry." This implies that the young boys were sent up the chimney to clean it. Blake uses "Every black'ning Church appalls." This could imply two things. It could mean that the city is dirty and the walls of the church have become black or the church and its believers are disagreeable with what is happening, that the walls becoming black is in fact a metaphor for the church disgraced with these actions. Blake again implies that London is corrupt because he describes abo...