Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge - Poetry Analysis - William Wordsworth
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- Created on: 15-05-15 17:18
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- Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
- Lines 1-8
- all add up to one sentence
- poet describes view of the city from the bridge
- nothing on Earth is more fair than what he sees
- anyone who passes by without stopping has a "dull" soul
- nothing on Earth is more fair than what he sees
- takes place in beauty of the morning
- lies like a blanket over the silent city
- no pollution
- open to the fields and sky
- lines 9-14
- sun never shone more beautifully
- even on nature
- never felt such calm
- river
- glides along at any pace it chooses
- personified
- ending
- houses seem asleep
- exclamation
- heart of the city is still
- sun never shone more beautifully
- analysis
- Italian sonnet
- iambic pentameter
- 10 syllables per line
- rhyme scheme
- abbaabbacdcdcd
- experience took place on July 31st 1802
- during a trip to france
- surprising
- romantic poet
- finds the city the fairest thing on earth, and not nature
- describes beautiful manmade things
- ships
- domes
- towers
- theatres
- temples
- describes nature in the 7th line
- describes how the city is open to he fields and the sky
- city is not part of nature, but is not in conflict with nature
- described in the next line
- air is smokeless
- no pollution
- air is smokeless
- described in the next line
- city is not part of nature, but is not in conflict with nature
- describes how the city is open to he fields and the sky
- describes beautiful manmade things
- finds the city the fairest thing on earth, and not nature
- sun never shone more beautifully
- even on natural things
- finds the city the fairest thing on earth, and not nature
- describes beautiful manmade things
- ships
- domes
- towers
- theatres
- temples
- describes nature in the 7th line
- describes how the city is open to he fields and the sky
- city is not part of nature, but is not in conflict with nature
- described in the next line
- air is smokeless
- no pollution
- air is smokeless
- described in the next line
- city is not part of nature, but is not in conflict with nature
- describes how the city is open to he fields and the sky
- describes beautiful manmade things
- romantic poet
- personification
- houses
- sun
- river
- William Wordsworth
- born 7 april 1770 in england
- died 23 april 1850 in england
- romantic
- launched romantic age in Literature
- family
- father
- representative of 1st earl of Lonsdale
- many business trips
- distant relationship
- many business trips
- encouraged reading
- representative of 1st earl of Lonsdale
- father
- born 7 april 1770 in england
- Lines 1-8
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