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In the first stanza, Blake is talking about how he is walking through every street. The adjective “chartered” seems to imply the value of money to live everyday in this ephemeral world, where everything is focused around money, richness and its value to reach anything. But, in despite of the role that money has in the world and happiness because of its value, many people are dominated by sorrow and sadness. The lines “In every cry of every man” and “in every infant’s cry of fear” are examples of this fact. People are not happy. In this poem Blake expressed the feeling of frustration and sadness through tone in his words, about people living in fear all the
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Shelley has done this by writing a political poem of England’s condition at the time and his experience through arrogance of power and unjustness towards the people. The line "rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know" are Lord Liverpool and his conservative cabinet. In calling them leeches that are bleeding their country, Shelley is indulging in hyperbole. They were men of integrity who happened to be in power at a time of general unrest caused by the unemployment and hunger that followed the end of the Napoleonic wars. There was rioting, some destruction of property, inevitable arrests and repressive measures. Shelley’s observations of England at the time lead him to express his overwhelming emotions in hope of possibility of liberty through poetry.
The last poem that proves Michelle Williams statement is “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth. The dejected and pitiful feeling that is passed on all through this poem embodies Wordsworth's dynamic definition of poetry as “emotion recollected in tranquility”. Wordsworth uses imagination to contemplate and celebrate the wonders of nature. This is made known in the concluding stanza of the poem:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward
Shelley has done this by writing a political poem of England’s condition at the time and his experience through arrogance of power and unjustness towards the people. The line "rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know" are Lord Liverpool and his conservative cabinet. In calling them leeches that are bleeding their country, Shelley is indulging in hyperbole. They were men of integrity who happened to be in power at a time of general unrest caused by the unemployment and hunger that followed the end of the Napoleonic wars. There was rioting, some destruction of property, inevitable arrests and repressive measures. Shelley’s observations of England at the time lead him to express his overwhelming emotions in hope of possibility of liberty through poetry.
The last poem that proves Michelle Williams statement is “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth. The dejected and pitiful feeling that is passed on all through this poem embodies Wordsworth's dynamic definition of poetry as “emotion recollected in tranquility”. Wordsworth uses imagination to contemplate and celebrate the wonders of nature. This is made known in the concluding stanza of the poem:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward