Romanticism: Early 19th Century England

After Analysis of the poems of William Blake, Percy Shelly, and William Wordsworth, it becomes apparent of the different views the authors have about England in the 19th century. William Blake looks with disdain at the materialism of the churches and political buildings while many live in poverty. William Wordsworth sees the average Englishman as money craving and greedy; to him this greed seems to be the start of spiritual decay that will only get worse as the society progresses economically. Percy Shelley on the other hand believes the British monarchy is far too powerful and abuses its power. Shelley believes that this corruption is limited to the king’s reign and will eventually stop, returning a sense spirituality to the world.
Many people see London in different perspectives, both positive and negative in both poetry and prose. William Wordsworth and William Blake are two poets that expressed their views and opinions in many contrasting ways about London through poems.
The two poets discovered London and valued it in assorted ways. William Wordsworth was a tourist who went through London to get to France. He saw London’s view from the top of Westminster Bridge and this is why he named the poem “Upon Westminster Bridge”. Whereas William Blake experienced and saw London’s “secrets” through the streets of London, and his poem is called “London”. Wordsworth observes nature and the beauty lying over London; however, Blake observes all the negatives occurring in London deep inside. Blake might of thought negatively about London because at that time London was in the industrial revolution. The words Blake used in his poem such as, “In every cry of every Man, In every infant’s cry of fear” shows us the woe and sorrow people become because of helplessness while living in London. In contrast to this, Wordsworth visualized London early in the morning over the top of Westminster Bridge, only seeing the beauty London is wearing over itself. The words he uses to