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equality between William Blake and William Wordsworths Views of capital of the United Kingdom William Blake grew up in the slums of capital of the United Kingdom and this is shown in his poem, he wrote his poem in the slums and back alleys of capital of the United Kingdom as he neer had very much money. He describes London as cosmos charterd, this gives us the impression that every topic has rules and boundaries in London, and that there is no mystery to be discovered. Also chartered means on a map, almost as if it is owned, by the king perhaps. The line in which the raillery is on, I wander through each charterd street, near where the charterd Thames does flow, makes us feel as if every thing is owned and nothing is natural, like all the hoi polloi in London are prisoners of society The ending line of stanza two tells us, The mind-forgd manacles I figure, this is Blakes way of showing to us that there are no free minds in London. Everyone had been brainwashed by society and t hey could not call up for themselves because of that. In the next stanza Blake describes the corruption of the church building of England by mentioning, Every blackning Church apalls this shows the dirtiness of the buildings and shows us that there is a possibility that he is a strong catholic. This line ties in very well with the line now above it How the chimney-sweepers cry, both of the lines are discussing how dirty and filthy London is. We could also think of these lines in a different way Blake could be telling us that the priests are corrupt and dirty rather than scarcely physically dirty. In the final line of this stanza, Blake states. And the hapless soldiers sigh, runs in livestock down palace-walls. This could be considered as another sign of corruption, and that monarchs are to pluck for the death in London a... ...f London, but they only do this because of their life story before they wrote the poems. One poet grew up in the rich area external London and moved t here later, whereas the other poet grew up in the slums of London. They never had the chance to see London through each others eyes, if they had they may wipe out thinking differently of London. Both poets grew up and wrote about what each thought of the same place, London is a city that is magnificent and beautiful to the people who know it like that. Whereas it is filthy and dirty to the people who have freehanded up in those filthy dirty areas. In my opinion London is a place that is somewhere between these two extreme versions of it, a place where there is magnificent splendour but also a place where there is filth and poverty. Theses poems where written two hundred and sextette years ago and London has not changed that much since then.