Various poem (week 3 extra)

"London" by William Blake

• The speaker walks through London's streets, noting marks of "weakness" and "woe" on people's faces
• Hears cries of men and infants and the metaphorical "mind-forged manacles
• Details the chimney-sweepers cry
• Describes how the "blackning Church appalls" and the "hapless soldiers sigh"
• Blood runs down palace walls
• Midnight streets echo with the curses of youthful harlots
• These curses ruin new-born infants, causing plagues on the "Marriage hearse"

"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" by William Wordsworth

• The poem describes a beautiful morning scene in London from Westminster Bridge
• The speaker declares the Earth has nothing fairer to show
• The city wears "the beauty of the morning" like a garment
• Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples are visible in the smokeless air
• The sun beautifully illuminates the valley, rock, and hill
• The speaker expresses a deep sense of calm
• The river flows at its own pace
• The houses seem asleep and the "mighty heart" of the city is still

"London, 1802" by William Wordsworth

• The speaker calls for Milton to be alive
• England is described as a "fen of stagnant waters" that needs guidance
• The English people have lost their "ancient dower of inward happiness"
• The speaker asks Milton to "raise us up" and restore "manners, virtue, freedom, power"
• Milton's soul was like a "Star"
• Milton had a powerful voice like the sea
• Milton was pure, majestic, and free
• Milton lived a life of cheerful godliness
• He devoted himself to the "lowliest duties"

From The Prelude, Book Seventh, "Residence in London"

• Six years have passed since the poet first felt inspired by the city after leaving its walls

• The initial "short-lived transport" faded, but now the poet resumes, thanks to a natural sign

• The poet recalls a choir of redbreasts that announced the end of winter

• The poet associates with these birds and finds another sign in a glow-worm, "clear-shining, like a hermit's taper" in a forest

• Returning to London

• The poet has left behind the sheltered life of academia

• Free from personal ambition, the poet comes to London

• The poet remembers shock of the city's first presence three years prior

• The poet is now fixed amidst mankind

• Pleasure is incessant, life and labor become one

• The poet is an idler, living cheerfully with youthful affection

• Simplistic beliefs of London are held by a chain of delight.

• Recalling a boyhood friend, a cripple, whose trip to London sparked great curiosity

• The poet's questioning of him revealed a gap between imagination and reality

• Imagines mitred prelates, lords in ermine, the King, the King's Palace, and the Lord Mayor, like legendary Whittington

• The impossibility of knowing one's neighbors is depicted

• London offers Vauxhall and Ranelagh with "green groves, wilderness of lamps...fireworks magical..."

• High society is under splendid domes, dancing or singing

• There are permanent marvels of London such as: the bridged River, the dizzy reach and Whispering Gallery of St. Paul's, the tombs Of Westminster, the Giants of Guildhall

• Those bold imaginations vanished, replaced by others

• The poet now looks upon the living scene and peruses it familiarly, despite disappointment

• Submitting courteously as a tax paid by prescriptive right

• Imagines, "monstrous ant-hill on the plain," or endless stream of men

• Everyday appearance strikes with wonder and awe on strangers

• A quick dance Of colors, lights, and forms, and deafening din

• Those coming and going, face to face, and string of dazzling wares

• Here fronts of houses look like title pages, and feature letters huge inscribed from top to toe

• "Allegoric shapes, female or male Or physiognomies of real men, Land-warriors, kings, or admirals of the sea, Boyle, Shakspeare, Newton, or the attractive head Of some quack-doctor, famous in his day"

• Meanwhile the roar continues, escapes from enemy

• The poet turns abruptly into sequestered nook

• There is English ballad-singer. Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes

• The shrieking tradeswomen "may entangle our steps," and lead unawares To regions, and inviolate

• The poet is conducted to privileged regions, where lawyers have airy lodges

• Those men look out on waters, walks, and gardens green

• The poet reaches some half-frequented scene, that brings straggling breezes and wider streets.

• Files of ballads dangle from dead walls, with giant-sized advertisements

• One is perhaps one in masquerade if fronted by most imposing word

• On the broadening causeway is a face that is red and hard

• There is also a traveling cripple cut short by the trunk

• Chalk inscriptions on smooth flint stones portray: the nurse, the bachelor, the military idler, and a dame

• Then, returning homeward through the hubbub, a begging scavenger, Italian man, and steadies for-seen

• the poem surveys: the Jew, stately and slow-moving Turk.

• Enough to say, without thinking minds, there is pleased to have noted specimens of man

• "Each colour bestows, and every character in face and form: The Swede, the Russian....Hunter-Indian....Lascar, the Tartar, the Chinese"

• This is a review of the sights found from day to day

• These strange plants and beasts are viewed indoors in many natures.

• The mirror of land expresses the ape of absolute reality

• There is no subtlest of craft, but imitations of loves and weaknesses

• Whether a painter takes in a horizon, acting on power

• Images are that of Angels, spirits fixed aloft a lofty pinnacle

• "They'are life-like mockery, on waters in a ship with a world behind, above, beneath"

• Exact scale in model, wood or clay; blended colours, is also borrowed

• Those miniatures are of famous churches, that can inspire

• One choice of vision is of; the Sibyl's Temple that is mouldering away on top.

• Villa and cottage can still be found. All that a landscaper sees is put here

• All is but a stone's scratch, a tuft, or a minute"

• Added onto this are exhibitions with: music with men living to be seen, or a pantomimic

• Mention by its name, like rural Saddler's Wells?

• The youth can never be less pleased, for he sits and watches on what must add

• There are clowns, conjurors, harlequins, giants and dwarfs

• watching nature can be a great task, learning through taught minds

• There is an attempt to to tell, on an obstinate day, how far to travel

• A scene in the scene; Jack the Giant killer is on what is the Stage

• He walks as the Delusion would like him, unseen.

• His bold garb the delusion wears is black, and invisible burns

• "Here, too, were 'forms and pressure of the time'"

• rough, bold, or art in young Greece; living dramas

• Recent with life is the sea: fight, wreckage, incident domestic divulged through fame.

• Such brotherhood as set-forth, serious themes in place

• Maiden Buttermere, with faithless husband-killer who wooed

• Bringing thee needs moment back. serving at inn

• With admiration being stricken, is modest mien

• Her discretion have observed over some time

• And tribute to the memoire has thy image rose'

• A new born, fearless is like the the lamb

• driven driven driven

• The youth is thinking through those days still simple which seem now

• The center of which is a boy, whose age is 6 months, has been of age

• To deal about or prattle; such child beautiful is clung or loved

• There too the stature tall, also there stood mother; beside what the infant could

• false accords were flared with Reserve is what's not said

• the pride or all placer Lookon

• There aliens casted or scattered down the clouds

• Vigure and Limb of summer rose

• parts were blown, child; that's nature favored

• What child refreshment placed to fill?

• Then there comes to what's the oaths by birds that have had flight

• What spirit may have preferred fair

• Mary is there. the tides keep rolling on

• there has hardly told what's from then and there

• From southward traveling, the woman first utters such Blesphemy'

• Abandoned opened it at vice; what humanity cannot be touched but shuddered"

• later come the sadder; such overthrows

• The sorrow stopped them, not farther

• Let is take our arguments less moved

• What passtime would have been weighed, that are casual'

• Power in Siddons to have passion's measured and set

• Such mean upholstery could have animation

• Through scene, advance Radiant dame over forest

• The courts have men for judges, who have brawl in what is that stage

• that that men what hearts do is such is that admired and envied

• Orator yoked Hours to Charriot where had heard one

• All of those are charmed and astonished

• But if the youths have had to have been told with great tongue seduction Burke

• Ingenuous what to say; bewildered, the pen is being tried to forgive!

• What tongue could have been heard and known better in age than this? what oak started what stag could've told and brought to such awe?

• System with Launches denounces,

• The Majesty says those Institutes is Holy/Hallowed, time's decrees; what Customs can endear?

• Wisdom breaks such Goddess, when Jove tells others with light

• With armor Startling. In the Synod who?

• What Pulpit oratory fails to? uninspired?

• what awful things could have been told by tongues through souls, and power endowed?

• place harangues or what bachelor have come?

• Isaisah, job, Shakespeare; bard

• truth comes streaming"

• To glance the few marks of Hall, court theater

• to have a candidate looked at pedestal of what the regard is. but the list is there never to end

• Though well pleased hunt

• reading book quicky and eye

• to-morrow for look

• The individual sits there still who has no common produce

• to be had through foil through such more

• what has made will one feel

• upon stone that he is in what is what silence the air

• the sun is up the child is held

• love is such for the poor

• the black mountain would have been something like so there and beyond

• The light has fermenting mass in set. The heart is what has the love.

• That I have saw said crowd

• When whither what's thoughts? as they feel. or has what that

• Sight has had what rare a view

• With his, and all. That world, who, etc?

The heart has built what mainly the things that she has made possession What's deep could have come

• Then stands all day? what locks the grave?

• then heaven with street? deserts?

• such fear has what listen?

• is fair the thing of the Bartholomew!

• if man lays it's complete power will imploring and say?

• What's Barbarian there; like a din

• space may be everytwinkling

• monkey dangle. that's the prodigies

• What's necks! The crowd will stretch or strain, or even crack the voice

• What's negro is the timbrel

• Albinos and Dwarfs, or even the what man feats? what

• Women and children, even babieis arms are jumbled. Monsters Booth are for many

• Blank for confusion! it is what is city's thousands are reduced and the lack Law

• What minds what labour must under when oppressed!

• sight still sight manageable? What part What is a whole?

• what nature education? Where attention? What streams? Power? Thoughts? Indian?

• As the eye is met! What zone propels? Where is beauty?

• The aspects come!

• to soul views set? What virtue's the like? What? A thought? Or aid to make to Freedom?

• this did have I, in London! beauty diffused

• then self destroyed what is what has the thing 770: balance comes