Compare And Contrast Wordsworth And A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To House

Both Wordsworth 's “A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed” and Keat 's “To A lady Seen For A Few Moments At Vauxhall” involve the speaker 's involvement with a young woman 's transition from beauty to the unattractive reality of their appearance. Wordsworth 's satirical imagery complimented with couplets serves to enhance the quickly paced transition from a normal woman to a ghoulish creature. However, Keats uses a series of metaphors to amplify the subjects attraction including the use of a rhyme scheme to give a sense of bond between each of the lines which elevate the alarming change near of the end of the passage. Between both poems there are similarities and differences in theme and setting which serve to enhance or debilitate the writing between both poets. The setting which both poems reside is within London. Wordsworth 's being within the red light district, filled with brothels and Keat 's being within the pleasurable gardens. Both of these regions can be seen as beautiful within their own way. The Brothel filled with many women which seem beautiful to draw in men, whilst the pleasurable gardens are filled with the bourgeoisie who reside in those areas. Delving into Wordsworth 's …show more content…
However Wordsworth reveals of society that these people who sell their bodies are in fact not beautiful at all, they live within areas such as sewer lines, shipped off to colonies and abused by pimps. At the end of the day as it is mocked, prostitutes are in fact do not look like what they seem on the streets. Described like in the poem to have artificial hair, eyes, makeup, sores and so forth. This may not be true as this poem definitely mocks the beauty beyond from what may be the case. But it speaks the truth about how these women are probably not as beautiful as you really think they may