Free Essays on London

Where have you been? The location that I have chosen is London, England, which is part of the United Kingdom. I went there in the summer of 2001 and had a wonderful time. Its latitude and longitude is 52N and 0. The geography and physical scenery of London, England is mostly flat plains and lowlands broken by low ranges of small hills. A typical London street has many small shops, pubs and double-decker buses everywhere. Houses are all built very close together and there are very few apartment buildings. London is generally a cool region, which receives a lot of rain so, for our trip it was practically raining everyday. The transportation that my family and I took was by a Canada 3000 airplane. We stayed in London, England with family for about three weeks. In London we visited many attractions including Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar square, Buckingham palace where the royal family lives, The houses of parliament, London Tower Bridge, Westminster abbey where princess Diana and Prince Charles got married, and many museums containing collections of paintings and objects relating to the United Kingdoms history. My other favourite attraction was Madame Trusauds wax museum there I got to take picture with all my favourite superstars except they were all models made of wax. We traveled around using the subway except in London it is called the â€Å"Underground†. We also loved to travel in the bright red double-decker buses that traveled all over London and gave us a great view of the city from the upper deck. My family and I got to take a tour of Buckingham palace because once a year they open the palace to the public for tours. However the royal family was in Scotland on vacation during these tours therefore, we had no chance of meeting them so we were quite disappointed. I had also learned many interesting facts about the royal family. One of the things I learned is that today the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy... Free Essays on London Free Essays on London Poetry Assignment In William Blake’s poem "London", the speaker conveys London as corrupt and corrupting . The speaker presents his image of London through his many "wander[ings]" through its streets. He notes the despair of "every" Londoner and their oppression by the "church" and the state. In everyone the speaker passes he sees signs of misery and moral weakness. In fact, the speaker is one of the oppressed and exploited Londoners and he conveys his moral indignation through diction and metaphor. That power of diction is achieved in good part through repetition. Notice how 'charter'd' appears twice, 'mark' three times and 'every' a total of seven times. Coupled with the repeated use of 'and' gives an atmosphere of distinct oppression to the poem. 'London' singles out the Church for their part in this oppression. " Every face I meet" and " marks of weakness, marks of woe" shows that different societal groups are singled out to show how they were controlled. Also the use of the word "every" through out the poem shows that corruption has affected everyone from infant to elder. By using the word "how" at the beginning of the third stanza the speaker acquires an accusing tone upon the "Church" and state because they are contradicting themselves. Also by the repetitive nature of the poem the speaker achieves a respected viewpoint on London’s situation. The poem is rich in symbolic meaning. The 'mind-forged manacles' represent the disturbing sounds of clanking metal chains which were common during this time period. Also the image of manacles and cuffs are hammered into peoples minds. The young boys in the lower class system were given the task of sweeping chimneys therefore classified as chimney sweepers. By doing this their skin became stained from the soot, which connects them to the African people who were also suffering. The "Church" is "black’ning" because their job is to be charitable to everyone, but their h... Free Essays on London London Essay written by Unknown In London, William Blake portrays a very dark and abysmal picture of London. Throughout the whole poem, Blake never mentions a positive scene. The poem seems to deal with the lower class part of society, the part which lives in the poor neighborhoods. The first stanza begins with the speaker wandering around London. Throughout the poem, Blake repeats a word which he used in one line, in the next line. An example of this can be seen in the first two lines. He uses the word chartered in the first line without any deep meaning to it, but the use of the word charted in the next line shows that the Thames was set up so that somehow people control where it flows. In the next few lines, the speaker talks about all the negative emotions which he sees in the people on the street, "In every cry of every man,/ In every infant's cry of fear,/ In every voice, In every ban,/ The mind-forged manacles I hear." In the final line of the first stanza, the speaker says that he hears the mind-forged mana cles. The mind-forged manacles are not real. By this I mean that they are created in the mind of those people whom the speaker sees on the streets. Those hopeless and depressing thoughts, in turn imprison the people whom the speaker sees on the street. When the speaker says that he can hear the "mind-forged manacles" he doesn't mean that he can literally hear the mind forged manacles but that he can hear the cries of the people which show their mind-forged manacles. In the second stanza, the speaker focuses on two specific occupations, the chimney sweeper and the soldier. The word blackening in the second line of the 3rd stanza iis used in an interesting context. Why would a church be blackening? Blackening can mean getting dirty, but I don't think that the speaker is using the word blackening in that sense. I think it means that the church doesn't want to dirty it's hands on the chimney sweeper's problems. In the next sen... Free Essays on London Where have you been? The location that I have chosen is London, England, which is part of the United Kingdom. I went there in the summer of 2001 and had a wonderful time. Its latitude and longitude is 52N and 0. The geography and physical scenery of London, England is mostly flat plains and lowlands broken by low ranges of small hills. A typical London street has many small shops, pubs and double-decker buses everywhere. Houses are all built very close together and there are very few apartment buildings. London is generally a cool region, which receives a lot of rain so, for our trip it was practically raining everyday. The transportation that my family and I took was by a Canada 3000 airplane. We stayed in London, England with family for about three weeks. In London we visited many attractions including Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar square, Buckingham palace where the royal family lives, The houses of parliament, London Tower Bridge, Westminster abbey where princess Diana and Prince Charles got married, and many museums containing collections of paintings and objects relating to the United Kingdoms history. My other favourite attraction was Madame Trusauds wax museum there I got to take picture with all my favourite superstars except they were all models made of wax. We traveled around using the subway except in London it is called the â€Å"Underground†. We also loved to travel in the bright red double-decker buses that traveled all over London and gave us a great view of the city from the upper deck. My family and I got to take a tour of Buckingham palace because once a year they open the palace to the public for tours. However the royal family was in Scotland on vacation during these tours therefore, we had no chance of meeting them so we were quite disappointed. I had also learned many interesting facts about the royal family. One of the things I learned is that today the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy...