London By George Eliot And Monet s The House Of...

London, England’s capital, is one of the top twenty-five largest cities in the world, located on the River Thames with a history reaching all the way back to Roman times. From the London Eye and Big Ben to the Albert and Victoria Memorial and Buckingham Palace, there is an abundance of adventures to journey on in the prodigious city of London. Despite all the fascinating monuments and architecture there is to see, London has the reputation of constantly being gloomy and raining. With this reputation, there is plenty of artwork that resembles the image of â€Å"gloomy, large London.† Three pieces of artwork that resemble the gloomy and large qualities of London are â€Å"In a London Drawing Room† by George Eliot, â€Å"A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM† by Amy Lowell, and Monet’s The House of Parliament, sunset (1903). Eliot’s painting of London represents the vast city as isolated and extremely gloomy, where â€Å"no bird can make a shadow as it flies† as a result of the immense amount of fog floating in the air. Here, London is depicted as a lonely and isolated city when Eliot says, â€Å"All hurry on look upon the ground, / Or glance unmarking at the passers by / The wheels are hurrying too, cabs, carriages / All closed, in multiplied identity.† With the millions of people breathing in London, it is still an empty city where people do not recognize one another and do not form the effort to conceive new relationships. In this sentence, it construes what giant cities are like; filled with independent