Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Dbq Essay

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The modern age was derived out of a cruel Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution era, many cities grew to be based on industrial factories. Even though the Industrial Revolution created many low wage jobs, it also created a tremendous about of pollution and destroyed the environment. People moved away from quaint farming towns, with horses and entire families working on the farm (Document C). These people moved into bustling towns like Manchester (Document D) with smoke stacks lining the town. People thought moving would be for the better, that’s what everybody thought in the beginning. In William Wordsworth’s poem “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”, he describes a contrasting view on the detrimental effects …show more content…

In the poem, Wordsworth describes, “Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie...All bright in glittering in the smokeless air (Wordsworth 6).” The town advanced greatly and in the moment, there isn’t smoke to cloud the beauty of achievement, there isn’t smoke filling the air because the factories hadn’t begun working when he wrote the poem. Even though the morning time is ideal, Wordsworth avoids the harsh reality of the harm the factories are causing. Charles Dickens describes the town as, “unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage (Document A)”. The town had fallen far enough to make people think the worst of the condition (Document A). Alexis de Tocqueville mentions that, “man has turned back almost into a savage.” Civilians have done the same as the towns, and are letting go of the standards they once set (Document B). The connotation of the word savage is significant of the fact that entire cities and its people are reverting back to times of ignorance and loss of connection to their world. In the poem, Wordsworth describes that, “Earth has not anything to show more fair (Wordsworth 1),” in the thought of people only have one planet and that people have done enough damage and taking away the beauty of the

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