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Essay Archive - Blakes's "London": Your Beauty, My Despair
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 th....
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