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Blakes's "London": Your Beauty, My Despair - College Essays

Blakes's "London": Your Beauty, My Despair

The statement that “Beauty is truth; truth , beauty” does not hold to be
a correct implication for everyone as far as life goes or the poem “London”
goes. This poem written by William Blake, is about life as he saw it in
that time frame and environment of society. In Blake's, poem the reality
or “truth” of young girls having babies out of wedlock, soldiers being
killed in wars, and poor people struggling to make a living does not look
beautiful to me. And so we ask ourselves the question, who does this truth
look beautiful to.
“How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new born Infants tear, and
blights with plagues the Marriage hearse”(lines 14-16). Having children at
a young age ...

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she struggled to regain her childhood but failed miserably. Now she
just lives day by day thinking that there is no hope for her or her
children. Blake saw the pain of this and yet he did not rejoice in its
reality, but wept.
“And the hapless soldiers sigh Runs in blood down the Palace walls”
(lines 11-12). Yes. Explain how the truth of families unnecessarily loosing
loved ones to war can cause a merry celebration. A war of hatred or greed
that was not their war to begin with, but the war of governments that
didn't quite get what they wanted out of a verbal agreement and needed the
bloody LIBERTY of going into someone else's country and take them over.
What beast laughs in delight at this horrid truth and call it beauty?
“How the chimney-sweeper's cry...” (line 10). The poor struggle in this
country every day just as the peasants of the eighteenth century did. Low
wages, bad working conditions, thousands crying out into the night for just
a chance at being more than ...

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Added: 5/1/2007 04:00:09 PM
Category: Poetry & Poets
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