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This poem begins with a plaintive William Wordsworth call to John Milton who was a much loved and respected English poet. He laments the fact that Milton isn’t around anymore and wishes that he were still alive now. And he thinks that England is dangerous without him and England needs a guiding voice, saying that it's a stagnant swamp (gross!) Also, that after Milton had died the English people had forgotten how all the things that used to make them so glorious, including religion, military might, and literature.
Wordsworth continues the poem with distressed that England lost a magically traditionally life when Milton died, and he describes the English people in his time as selfish and debased, and he begs Milton to help them get out of their slump. He thinks that Milton can change the situation that England and the English people live in and to make them better all around – nicer, more virtuous, and more powerful. Wordsworth tells us that this poet that Milton was a very special person and he starts to compare between the older writer to a star, something removed from the mass of humanity, and superior to the rest of us.
Also he praises Milton for an amazing personality and that Milton's poetry was as powerful and amazing as the forces of the natural world, like the sea and the sky.
Wordsworth also ends his poem London 1802 also by saying that Milton was a very special person who was "life's common way" and he lived his live happily and chastely. Finally, I like this a very interesting poem that describes Milton and how he was a very natural and pure person and England and the English people loset much after he died.
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