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The document compares the poems "London" by William Blake and "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth. While both poems describe the city of London around the same time period, they portray strikingly different visions. Wordsworth celebrates the early morning beauty of a quiet, sleeping London from Westminster Bridge. In contrast, Blake offers a devastating portrayal of the misery and oppression he sees in the "chartered streets" of London, condemning the institutions that inflict suffering
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