¡®Composed Upon Westminster Bridge¡¯ and ¡®God¡¯s Grandeur¡¯ are both traditional poems written in the romantic era which looks upon changes that need to happen and looks away from those to the places which haven¡¯t been affected by the misery of the world. ¡®Composed Upon Westminster Bridge¡¯ is a typical romantic sonnet expressing Wordsworth¡¯s love for the beauty and amazement of London. This is in much contrast to ¡®God¡¯s Grandeur¡¯ in which Hopkins expresses his feelings towards the beauty of nature in comparison to the wretchedness of man. Both poems have endeavoured to use their different rhyme schemes, language and similes to propose their own strong views on the world. ¡®Composed Upon Westminster Bridge¡¯ and God¡¯s …show more content…
This is much contrasted to the extensive use of plosives in God¡¯s Grandeur creating harsh sounds through the letters ¡®t¡¯, ¡®d¡¯ and ¡®h¡¯, ¡®trade, bleared and smeared¡¯. Both poems have very different views on the world in which we live in. Whilst Wordsworth wrote ¡®Composed Upon Westminster Bridge¡¯ he was travelling through London on his way to France, happy in his own thoughts. This is dissimilar to Hopkins as he wrote God¡¯s Grandeur after facing much death and sadness in his own life. Both poets talk of beauty despite of man, In ¡®God¡¯s Grandeur¡¯, ¡®there lives the dearest freshness deep down¡¯ and in ¡®Composed Upon Westminster Bridge¡¯, ¡®the beauty of the morning¡¯. Both poems use the influence of man to show how the world has become. In ¡®God¡¯s Grandeur¡¯ this is negative- how man is destructive ¡®All is seared with trade¡¯ whilst in ¡®Composed Upon Westminster Bridge¡¯ this is a positive action in that trade is seen as beautiful, ¡®ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie¡¯. ¡®Composed Upon Westminster Bridge¡¯ uses the poem to show London as a loving and enjoyable place to live. This romantic and poetic language makes his poem enjoyable to read, ¡®The river glideth at his own sweet will¡¯. This is contrasted to ¡®God¡¯s Grandeur¡¯ where the poets first desire is not
In Wordsworth's poem, he used syntax and diction to show how the flowers changed his once depressed lonely mood to positive and grateful. While in Muir's essay, he also uses diction to tell his story of finding calypso and his overwhelming sense of happiness when he finally sat by the beautiful flower.
While both poets Muir and Wordsworth wrote about the happy feelings that they have towards nature the beautiful outdoors or what some people may say Mother Nature, some of which the feelings are the same and some that are different as they speak of the different plants.
In the romantic era, British authors and poets focused on nature and its influence. Two of those poets, Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, wrote many pieces on the beauty of nature and their personal experiences with the beaches of England. In “Far on the sands” and “It is a beauteous evening,” Smith and Wordsworth describe their respective experiences on the shore at sunset. Both authors use structure, theme, allusions, and imagery to effectively convey their perceptions of nature. While the sonnets share a setting and the topics of nature and tranquility, Smith’s has a focus on introspection and Wordsworth’s is centered around religion. These have different focuses which achieve different effects on the reader.
One of the ways that the two poems differ is in structure. While both are sonnets, Smith’s poem is a Shakespearean sonnet and Wordsworth’s lacks traditional structure. In “Far on the sands,” Smith utilizes the form of a Shakespearean sonnet to enhance its theme of personal reflection. The first six lines of the poem are dedicated to describing the scene before the speaker. Smith gives details about the shore, saying “Far on the sands, the low, retiring tide, / In distant murmurs hardly seems to flow” (ll. 1-2). After speaking about the view she spends an octave explaining how this scene affects her. She asks if “the soft lustre of the sleeping main” can “‘Erase the written troubles of the brain’” (ll. 8, 10). While this is an inversion of a traditional
The poem highlights the beauty and sensuality of nature. He uses the theme of nature to explore the pleasure he feels whilst taking in the sights and smells of nature. Montague uses broad vowel sounds to create assonance in the first stanza. This creates euphony and a sort of verbal music, possibly representing the noise of the river and the theme of nature.
Both poems start out by talking about of humans have lost touch with nature. Wordsworth does this by saying how humans have become too materialistic and Hopkins does this by talking about God and humans have lost touch with him. Both use allusions in their poems in relation to nature. When Wordsworth says “hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn” he is talking about the nature he longs
he joined the armed forces and wrote several of his lesser known poems. They all included a romantic theme which could be a result of being isolated from the opposite sex. The general subject or goal of the Romantic era was to compare the beauty of nature to an everyday object or person and to create a snapshot of the scene being described. “[Romanticism] Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature, prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication, and contemplates nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development,” (Langley 2-5) The importance of the comparison between the river is huge in this poem because the way the river is described as a “bright, clear flow”. It shows that this river in particular is special. The majority of rivers are muddy and murky which suggests that the maiden has a sense of purity about her.
This quote is expressing William Wordsworth’s love towards the Westminster Bridge by saying that it is charming and moreover anyone who ignores the beauty is a miser. The next line just backs up the poet’s feeling of appreciation for such a
The two poems 'Binsey Poplars' by Hopkins and 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' by Wordsworth both contain very strong, emotive feelings. However, the feelings that they contain are very different. The 'Binsey Poplars' poem has an overall feeling of anger. Hopkins is openly enraged by the removal of the trees which is clearly seen in the poem as it stresses the sudden shock that Hopkins experiences as he sees his trees have gone. There is also a great
To better understand this poem some history about London during the time the poem was written is helpful. London was the “. . . undisputed cultural, economic, religious, educational, and political center” of England in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. It was a city of “warehouses, docks, factories, prisons,
A new chapter in the history of English poetry opened with the publication of “Lyrical Ballads” which were the results of Wordsworth and Coleridge friendship after the revolution. They included two different kinds of poetry in these ballets. Wordsworth talked about the subjects that were chosen from ordinary life and he
you feel calm and relaxed while you read the poem, as it has nice and
In order to give “The Bard” literary standing, and thus provide an effective platform to broadcast his views, the poet makes several careful and deliberate choices in the poem’s structure and language to create a sense age and grandeur for the poem. By referring to both to classical Greek poetry and popular and influential literary pieces, like Milton’s Paradise Lost (Gray 20), Gray manufactures standing for his poem. The full title specifies the poem as a ‘Pindaric Ode’. Though this was not an uncommon form of ode – and one which Gray used frequently – specifying that “The Bard” is a classical style of poem immediately sets the reader up with the understanding that this poem will be written with the Greek style in mind, and thus gives it an almost classical credibility. Although it was written before the Romantic period of literature, Gray’s use of landscape and nature, ask the reader to contrast the landscape to the actions of the English army and begs comparisons between physical nature and human nature. Gray, whilst linking the poem to ancient works and
Some of the recurrent themes and motifs in Hopkins’ poetry include the idea that the world resembles a book written by God, through which he expresses himself in order to provide humans with an opportunity to understand and approach him (Gardner 11). In ‘God’s Grandeur’ Hopkins can be seen to express his concern about the spiritual crisis of the Victorian period. During this time of urbanization and industrialization, Hopkins voiced his distress about human indifference to destruction. This poem is one of the very few which he wrote during the time when he served as a priest.
Where Wordsworth focused too on love and nature at first, he then took on more spiritual subjects. Further, if we assume that Wordsworth’s imitation of “The Retreat” was intentional, then Vaughan may have even been a poetic model (in some sense) for Wordsworth later in life. True, Wordsworth is not generally considered a religious poet; he would never have originally considered Vaughan a model because of the latter’s extreme religiosity. Yet if these two poems don’t echo in godly gestures per se, they do in a more spiritual sense—and perhaps Wordsworth, as a man confronted with his own mortality, found Vaughan’s treatise on the spirit’s immortality a sympathetic sentiment. Thus by comparing the two, we also might better understand Wordsworth’s poetic progression.