In the poem "London", William Blake writes about his disgust and dislike of the city, the people who live there and the people who are responsible for it.

In the poem "Westminster Bridge", William Wordsworth writes about the beauty and splendour of the city.

The poem "London" has four stanzas each with four regimented lines, rhyming at the end of every other line. We know that it is Blake who is wandering through the city. He uses the word `wander' effectively to imply that he is strolling around without any direct purpose. Blake uses a lot of repetition and words that have more than one meaning to put forward his message. In the first stanza he uses the word charter'd twice to describe the streets and the river. He is implying that the streets and river are mapped out like a large maze, but also that they are...