A photograph is simply a picture; a visual representation of a scene. Poetry however, can turn one `snapshot' into a deep and meaningful image - even to someone who has never seen it - along with emotions, numerous meanings and deeper undercurrents. A beautiful moment, such as `Adlestrop', is conserved brilliantly in a poem, with the image expanding in every stanza; however disturbing images of distress are portrayed extremely well also, with `London' being a very powerful and thought stimulating poem, although it is completely contrasting to `Adlestrop'. Each of the poems works well in this way, the poets portraying their particular vision of a place through constant descriptions and flowing scenes of beauty - or suffering.

The selection of poems contrast in their characteristics, but also many similar aspects can be highlighted; all four poems are, perhaps most obviously, about cities or towns - two of the...