Feelings About the City in William Wordsworth's Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
A man of many talents, his biggest accomplishment being his poetry,
endeavoured him to write a famous sonnet "Composed upon Westminster
Bridge." This poets name would be William Wordsworth. Within his poem
Wordsworth delved into the inner workings of London and what London
felt to him. Wordsworth is able to capture the very essence of his
feelings in this poem with a few import ingredients. Including
effective imagery, logical structure, exaggerated punctuation and a
contrast of scenes you would expect to see upon Westminster Bridge.
Composed upon Westminster Bridge is a poem which looks at one mans
view of London. In particular Westminster Bridge as stated in the
title of the poem, in which all aspects are described, a contrast of
both man made and natural sites. "Ships, towers, domes, theatres and
temples lie. In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill".
Wordsworth's approach to this poem when exercising his majestic
feelings tend to be very narrow minded so much so that they could be
seen to be arrogant. By using negative connotations Wordsworth is able
to convey his biased views "Never did sun more beautifully steep.
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!" The idea of incorporating
such exaggerated punctuation as an exclamation mark that Wordsworth
uses in his poem brings me onto my next point. Wordsworth conveys his
positive feelings for grandeous London by using exclamations. William
can convey his feelings both through how the reader is instructed to
read the poem and how the reader is then able to visualise the emotion
through those exclamations on the page.
Composed upon Westminster Bridge has been divided poetically into
firstly an octet and secondly a sextet. A reader does not visually see
a break in stanza but when read, the reader is aware of a change in
tone. Wordsworth has created a change in tone as it allows him to
reinforce his feelings of wealth, power, and beauty within London
which at this stage of the poem is most obvious.
The seventh stanza is suddenly written as though a human voice has suddenly taken over and began reading the poem.
the word stanza after stanza. Even more eerie, the narrator's seems to frame his questions around the word
Instead of flying through the sentence, as one would do if it were simply written in a linear way across the page, the reader tends to stop at each line-break and at every stanza break to contemplate how each stanza is different.
* This stanza is much shorter than the other 2 and most of the word
...o.k. if your go the other way because the narrator is still some how going up, and growing. At the end the stanza finish like it started
William Blake’s poem “London” takes a complex look at life in London, England during the late seventeen hundreds into the early eighteen hundreds as he lived and experienced it. Blake’s use of ambiguous and double meaning words makes this poem both complex and interesting. Through the following explication I will unravel these complexities to show how this is an interesting poem.
In line 17 the word “hearse” is used as a car to take the bride to the
Of all the topics Wordsworth covered in his poetic lifetime, friendship stands out as a key occupation. His own personal friendship with Coleridge led to the co-writing of Lyrical Ballads in 1789. The poem “On Friendship,” written to Keats after an argument in 1854, states, “Would that we could make amends / And evermore be better friends.”
During the 18th century, two great companion; William Wordsworth collaborated together to create Lyrical Ballad; one of the greatest works of the Romantic period. The two major poems of Lyrical Ballad are Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight.” Even though these two poems contain different experiences of the two speakers, upon close reading of these poems, the similarities are found in their use of language, the tone, the use of illustrative imagery to fascinate the reader’s visual sense and the message to their loved ones.
can see the limits set to the people by themselves in the mind and the
Wordsworth's Poetry A lot of literature has been written about motherhood. Wordsworth is a well known English poet who mentions motherhood and female strength in several of his poems, including the Mad Mother, The Thorn, and The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman. This leads some critics to assume that these poems reflect Wordsworth's view of females. Wordsworth portrays women as dependent on motherhood for happiness, yet he also emphasizes female strength.
In William Wordsworth’s poems, the role of nature plays a more reassuring and pivotal r ole within them. To Wordsworth’s poetry, interacting with nature represents the forces of the natural world. Throughout the three poems, Resolution and Independence, Tintern Abbey, and Michael, which will be discussed in this essay, nature is seen prominently as an everlasting- individual figure, which gives his audience as well as Wordsworth, himself, a sense of console. In all three poems, Wordsworth views nature and human beings as complementary elements of a sum of a whole, recognizing that humans are a sum of nature. Therefore, looking at the world as a soothing being of which he is a part of, Wordsworth looks at nature and sees the benevolence of the divinity aspects behind them. For Wordsworth, the world itself, in all its glory, can be a place of suffering, which surely occurs within the world; Wordsworth is still comforted with the belief that all things happen by the hands of the divinity and the just and divine order of nature, itself.
The Influence of Nature in Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was known as the poet of nature. He devoted his life to poetry and used his feeling for nature to express him self and how he evolved.
William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is an ideal example of romantic poetry. As the web page “Wordsworth Tintern Abbey” notes, this recollection was added to the end of his book Lyrical Ballads, as a spontaneous poem that formed upon revisiting Wye Valley with his sister (Wordsworth Tintern Abbey). His writing style incorporated all of the romantic perceptions, such as nature, the ordinary, the individual, the imagination, and distance, which he used to his most creative extent to create distinctive recollections of nature and emotion, centered on striking descriptions of his individual reactions to these every day, ordinary things.