Composed upon Westminster Bridge

A Comparison of Poems About London 'London', by William Blake, and William Wordsworth's untitled poem, composed on Westminster Bridge, are two different poems written with different styles and techniques to portray their feelings towards London. They are both written in the romantic era and are very passionate in the way they convey their (as both are written in first person) differing opinions on London. Wordsworth's sonnet shows all the positive points and that in

eye. He comes across these imaginary visions while "meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale," where these thoughts come alive. It explains through alliteration how walking through wooded paths, accompanied only by one's mind, one comes upon new feelings and thoughts that are only palpable in that wood. Nature inspires Samuel Coleridge to exorcise his mind's eye and create a heavenly atmosphere. Percy Bysshe Shelley looks up to

How do William Blake and William Wordsworth respond to nature in their poetry? The Romantic Era was an age, which opened during the Industrial (1800-1900) and French Revolution (1789). These ages affected the romantic poets greatly by disrupting and polluting nature. Before the Industrial Revolution, William Blake wrote about Songs of Innocence. He also wrote Songs of Experience but after the Industrial Revolution. William Wordsworth, on the other hand, continued on an optimistic route

William Blake and William Wordsworth both write about London in their poems. “Composed Upon Westminster bridge” and “London” both portray London differently during the industrial revolution. Blake writes about the negative aspects of London while Wordsworth on the other hand writes about the positive aspects of London. Although these poems portray London differently, they do so by the use of similar methods. The methods they use to portray London are exaggeration, use of the five senses, and personification

The Romanic period held great tools in which to develop personal expression within poetry – As popularity shifted from Neoclassism, a rigid writing form whereby poets and writers were encouraged to copy those who also shared the poetic platform, to an increased in the importance of the individual capabilities. Critic Christopher John Murray argues that “The idea of poetry as the sincere personal expression of the individual author emerged as central to the Romantic lyric and to aesthetics and hermeneutics

freedom and space. However, the fact that they have a form of structure at all, and are not merely blank verse, hints at a sense of cyclic monotony and, therefore, entrapment. Prefatory Sonnet is more purposefully structured than Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge; line thirteen (“who have felt the weight of too much liberty”) is written in contrasting trochaic meter, in turn emphasising the false perception of space created by people who think themselves surrounded by it. Each poem is monosyllabic

know he aimed his poems to the educated. During the romnatic period, poets would mainly send out the message to admire nature and see the beauty in it. We should fine joy in nature and nature should be our teacher. In the poem “composed upon Westminster Bridge”

The opinions and viewpoints William Wordsworth is trying to express in his 1802 poem describe the peaceful and natural environment that exists in London, England. The poem that Wordsworth composed upon Westminster Bridge on September 3rd, 1802 references the majestic views brought on by native London. Wordsworth states “The Beauty of the morning; silent, bare,” illustrate London as an attractive place, unflawed and authentic. Lines like “All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun

Modified from Laurie Coleman and resources at The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1 ? Essay #1: Poetry Explication A poetry explication is a relatively short analysis that describes the possible meanings and relationships of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem. It is a line-by-line unfolding or revealing of the meaning(s) of a poem as the poem develops that meaning from beginning to end. Writing an explication is an effective way for

William Wordsworth’s work. Nature’s fast-paced progression towards death due to human negligence is expressed and comparisons to the beauty of the environment in Wordsworth’s work are included with shades of Wordsworth’s work such as “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”.  The grief and devastation that a young death can cause on a family are sensitively represented in “Mid-Term Break”. Heaney’s father, a patriarchal figure, is completely broken down by enjambment in “In the porch I met my father crying-He