River Thames

From the “cry of every man” to the “infants cry of fear” (Blake 1469). The lines “In every voice, in every ban,/The mind-forg’d manacles I hear” (Blake 1469) reveal Blake’s purpose of showing the people the “slavery” they aren’t unwittingly trapped in. To “ban” can mean to “prohibit by official decree” and also “condemnation by church officials.” This dual meaning symbolizes that the monarchy is manacling people with their bans on the streets and the river in the first two lines and that the people are manacled by the church’s condemnation of the chimney-sweep children in the following lines. “Forged” also has a great deal of meaning. A forge is used to make metal malleable so it is easier to shape. Blake uses this as a metaphor to describe how the people’s mind are being shaped to the bonds of the king and the church. Blake is also trying to get the people of London to notice they are creating their own manacles by not seeing these atrocities for what they…

moving and the word ‘majesty’ means something big and great. The author personificates London while he describes it as ‘majesty’ because Cities can’t be royal. The word is usually used to describe a human being that has a royal blood, which means that Wordsworth gives London attribution of human qualities. In the fourth line of the poem we have a simile as the author says, that London is wearing the morning as a dress:” This City now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning” in the…

Five reasons for a bankside visit The Thames is the soul of the city of London; people from faraway destinations have one objective of being as close to Thames as possible. The area from the famous London Bridge to waterloo along the banks of the river Thames is one of the most gorgeous stretches which are beautiful and has a picturesque location, my friends at the park lane hotel used to be near this place for hours at stretch. The stretch is quite large and when you get immersed in the silence…

his own knowledge within himself on the darkness. When Marlow returns to England, Kurt’s presence seems to haunt him. He cannot shake the words off of him that Kurt once spoke to him along the journey. Conrad also uses symbolism to indicate that Marlow is also on a journey into the deepest nooks and cranny’s of his soul. Marlow 's breaks the silence and sets the tone of his tale; darkness. He states, "this also has been one of the dark places of the earth" (138). With Britain 's colonization, it…

In London, England, by the Thames River, where women were found dead, not just any women, prostitutes. What made these murders peculiar? They were all strangled, by forceful-throat penetration, stripped of their clothes left in the night for the next pedestrian to find the cold lifeless body. Not just in the river or near the river but in the town as well. There were eight possible victims, only six confirmed by the killer nicknamed "Jack the Stripper", four possible suspects, with Mungo Ireland…

London of ‘darkness’: “while this conversation had been proceeding, we had been shooting the long series of bridges which span the Thames. As we passed the City the last rays of the sun were gilding the cross upon the summit of St. Paul’s. It was twilight before we reached the Tower … […] … Her sharp, steep prow cut through the still river-water and sent two rolling waves to right and to left of us. With every throb of the engines we sprang and quivered like a living thing. One great yellow…

The city quickly began to grow and underwent a major transformation. The population grew an astounding 400% during the 1500’s. The city replicated all of the lively qualities of that time period. London was the leader in art, culture, music, literature, and commerce. The thespians, artists, musicians, and poet of that age were among the most noted of their time. Actually, one of the most famous authors of all times, William Shakespeare lived and wrote there (Mabillard). There were two…

stories or novels. Water can symbolize several characteristics, add depth to a tale, and can say a lot about characters without saying anything at all. Water is crucial for life and is often used symbolically to represent life. In The Love Suicides of Amijima, Jihei and Koharu decide to end their lives alongside a river. The selection of the river for the location of their suicide could have been almost ironic. Because water represents life, using life as a place for death could be…

The poems Africa and Flying Man by Rabindranath Tagore show the negative effects of man-made destruction. The destruction is the way they have mistreated the people of Africa, as well as changing the way nature used to be, from the peaceful harmonious nature to inventing more modernised technologies, making man seem more arrogant. The focus of the two poems is how man has destroyed the earth with their actions, and the poet does this by using imagery and figurative language. In Africa, Tagore…

Baltimore City Sewage Overflow: Past Time to Fix the Pipes Do you ever take a drink from a water fountain and realize that it doesn't taste as fresh and cool as your bottled water from the supermarket? Do you actually know when the last time your school's water pipes have last been changed? Well in Baltimore they are dealing with a bad sewage overflow that should have been over with by now. Baltimore residents are infuriated by the fact that there is nothing they can do to fix this problem,…