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“Composed upon Westminster Bridge” (790).
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Earth has not anything to show more fair; Dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty; This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent, bare, ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air, never did sun more beautiful steep, In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear god! The very houses seem asleep; and all that mighty hear is lying still!
In this very short poem William Wordsworth describes how beautiful the city is right at sunrise. • He does this by using personification. “ the city now doth, like a garment.” “ the very house seem asleep!” In the poem William is giving a lot of detail right as the sun is coming up. He uses a lot of descriptive words to give you that image in your head. His tone in the poem is very relaxed which gives you that sense of calmness you get when you get up in the morning and go outside.
The worlds is too much with us; late and soon. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; little we see in the nature that is ours; we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon, the winds that will be howling all hours, and are up, gathered now like sleeping flowers, for this, for everything we are out of tune; I’d rather be Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on the pleasant lea, have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; have sight of Proteus rising form the sea; or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
In this poem the ticked at what the world has become. “ getting and spending, we lay wasted our powers.” • He is mad because he thinks people have lost their connection with Nature. • He blames the modern age for this. • He even says he wished he was a Pagan, raised according to a different vision of the world. • He wishes this so he could see glimpses that would make him less forlorn. So he may see goddesses rising up from the sea.
I wondered lonely as a cloud that gloats on high o’er bales and hills when all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodil; beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuously as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they stretched in never ending line along the margin of a bay; Ten Thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they outdid the sparkling waves in glee; a poet could not but gay, in such a jocund company; I gazed but little thought. What wealth the show to me had brought; For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.
In this poem William Wordsworth is on his couch probably day dreaming. • He is dreaming that he is a butterfly flying across green hills and pastures. • He sees an ocean of dancing fluttering flowers. • He describes the beautiful scenery “ beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” • In the poem he says that a poet could not have better company than those flowers. • He gives great detail about the scenery so you can get an image in your head.
In these four poems William Wordsworth shows his love for nature. • He uses nature to explain his feelings and thoughts. • He also gives you a lot of detail and uses descriptive words that help the reader. • The tone he would use in each poem could tell you if he was mad or relaxed • By reading his poems you can tell that he was very close to nature.
