Comparison and contrast between Blake and Wordsworth's views on London with poems "London" and "London, 1802" respectively.

Poetry was an outsider to the cold, efficient, emotionless environment of the Industrial Revolution. Romantics of all arts criticized the changing ways of life and idealized the pre-industrial revolution era. London was the haven to this revolution, and the hell to all poetry. William Wordsworth and William Blake both denounced London's new environment with their poems "London, 1802" and "London" respectively. Both authors were against this transformation of the city because it destroyed all beauty and …

…glorious epoch, where people were trusted and loved. Blake and Wordsworth show this death with their profound words and their sorrowful depictions of the loss of happiness in London. Their differences in writing styles only further the image of London in its dejected state and the loss of corruption brought on by the inevitable force of modernization. Blake and Wordsworth were both soldiers armed with their pens in the march against the tyranny of corruption.