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A 5 page analysis of three poems, William Blake's 'London,' Maya Angelou's 'My Arkansas,' and Carl Sandburg's 'Chicago.' Concentrating primarily on 'London' and 'Chicago,' the writer shows how two poets in two different ages looked on similar circumstances and saw very different things. Quotations from the source. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to mean a great deal to her. In each case, the poetry is honest. Nothing is romanticized as the bad is revealed along with the good. In each case,
the reader gets a feel, not only for the environment described, but also for how the poet relates to that particular region at this particular point in time. Each
poet used the perceptions of their particular era to interpret the changes that were occurring not only in their own immediate environment, but also to society in general. Blake viewed
London through the perspective of someone who knew that the hardship being endured by the lower classes had no redress through the institutions of that day. The poetry of
Angelou and Sandburg is more positive although, they too, saw the seamy side of society. Certainly Sandburgs poetry, and from a certain point of view in Angelous as well, pictured
the working people as involved in the progress that was being made. This may have been due simply to the fact that the passage of time had given more of
society inclusion in the benefits that result from change. Blake, who lived during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, wrote about a city with which he was intimately
acquainted, London. The first two lines of the poem establish his thorough knowledge of the London of his day. "I wander thro each charterd street/Near where the chaterd Thames does
flow" (Blake PG). That the times in which Blake lived were hard is plainly evident from the context of his poem. Every face he meets bears silent witness
to some unnamed trouble. Whatever this unnamed trouble is, it is pervasive-"In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban," (Blake PG). What one immediately feels
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