Question: To what extent are there common threads in the poems you studied this year? Refer to a range of poems and poets in your answer.
Famous poets William Blake, William Wordsworth, Wilfred Owen, Bruce Dawe and Gwen Harwood have all created a large array of poetic pieces. Each poem is an extension of each poet’s perspective of the world of which they use to portray specific messages to their intended audiences. The messages and tones conveyed throughout each author’s poems have similarities that create common threads throughout such as anthem for doomed youth and homecoming with their common theme of the repercussions of war and London and Composed Upon Westminster Bridge with their common setting of late 1800’s London.
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Specifically when contrasted, London addresses the themes of social corruption and restrictions of late 1800’s London while alternatively Composed Upon a Westminster bridge glorifies the industrial setting. Furthermore, Wordsworth’s resorts to the use of natural imagery to capture the beauty of London stating that “Earth has not anything to show more fair”. On the other hand, Blake resorts to the use of repetition with words such as “Every” and “In” to show the reality of industrial London. Similarly, both poets use their poems as a form of expressing themselves and their view of the city and how they see the world from their perspective. Additionally the only other similarity between the two literary pieces is the common setting of late 1800’s London. In regards to structure, Blake’s poem takes the form of 4 stanzas comprised of 16 lines and a simple rhyming scheme while alternatively; Wordsworth’s poem is in the configuration of a sonnet. In contrast, Wordsworth goes on to praise royalty and the “dear” Christian “God” while Blake’s talks of “blackening church appals” and a world were “blood” runs “down palace walls”. Due to Blake’s bleak perspective of London, it appears that Wordsworth may be directly mocking men of the likes of Blake stating that men have to be “dull of soul” to not realise the beauty of London. Both poems influence the reader to imagine and reflect on the setting of late 1800’s London from two drastically different perspectives while also making them question the state of society and the government in play. Ultimately both poets William Blake and William Wordsworth have created poems that totally contradict each other when compared with the only similarities being that of the setting and the poets will to express themselves and their
Famous poets William Blake, William Wordsworth, Wilfred Owen, Bruce Dawe and Gwen Harwood have all created a large array of poetic pieces. Each poem is an extension of each poet’s perspective of the world of which they use to portray specific messages to their intended audiences. The messages and tones conveyed throughout each author’s poems have similarities that create common threads throughout such as anthem for doomed youth and homecoming with their common theme of the repercussions of war and London and Composed Upon Westminster Bridge with their common setting of late 1800’s London.
The poems, Anthem …show more content…
Specifically when contrasted, London addresses the themes of social corruption and restrictions of late 1800’s London while alternatively Composed Upon a Westminster bridge glorifies the industrial setting. Furthermore, Wordsworth’s resorts to the use of natural imagery to capture the beauty of London stating that “Earth has not anything to show more fair”. On the other hand, Blake resorts to the use of repetition with words such as “Every” and “In” to show the reality of industrial London. Similarly, both poets use their poems as a form of expressing themselves and their view of the city and how they see the world from their perspective. Additionally the only other similarity between the two literary pieces is the common setting of late 1800’s London. In regards to structure, Blake’s poem takes the form of 4 stanzas comprised of 16 lines and a simple rhyming scheme while alternatively; Wordsworth’s poem is in the configuration of a sonnet. In contrast, Wordsworth goes on to praise royalty and the “dear” Christian “God” while Blake’s talks of “blackening church appals” and a world were “blood” runs “down palace walls”. Due to Blake’s bleak perspective of London, it appears that Wordsworth may be directly mocking men of the likes of Blake stating that men have to be “dull of soul” to not realise the beauty of London. Both poems influence the reader to imagine and reflect on the setting of late 1800’s London from two drastically different perspectives while also making them question the state of society and the government in play. Ultimately both poets William Blake and William Wordsworth have created poems that totally contradict each other when compared with the only similarities being that of the setting and the poets will to express themselves and their