| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: An Analysis and Interpretation of William Wordsworth`s "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" Maria Wohlgemuth, 2020-01-27 Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1, University of Graz, language: English, abstract: William Wordsworth, a co-founder and representative of Romanticism, wrote “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” when he was on the way to France with his sister Dorothy Wordsworth. He wanted to meet his illegitimate daughter. In the poem Wordsworth describes the view they observed, when crossing Westminster Bridge during the early morning hours (cf. Mullan 2014). Around this time the Industrial Revolution took place in Great Britain. Thus, the growth of manufacturing and production boosted the industry and promoted the development of new inventions as well as innovations (cf. Britannica online 2019). Romanticism or the Romantic Period was an artistic and intellectual movement from the late 18th to the mid-19th century which influenced European literature, painting, music as well as architecture. Moreover, the romantic period has put it emphasis on the appreciation of nature and emotional sensitivity of humans. (cf. Ferber 2010). Nevertheless it is uncommon for Wordsworth to write about a city, especially in such a positive tone, since he is a co-founder and important poet of the Romantic period (cf. Mullan 2014). With this seminar paper I intend to show Wordsworth`s uncommon way of appreciating London as an element of nature in his poem “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” and how the poet refers to the Industrial Revolution and the Romantic Period. Firstly I plan to briefly summarize the poem and then find out how the atmosphere of the poem is created by analysing its language and use of personification. I will also take a closer look on the poem`s form and how rhetorical figures are being used. This also includes an analysis of the meter, rhyme scheme and its relation to the theme of the poem. The primary source of this research paper is the poem “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” itself as it was written by William Wordsworth. For a more in-depth understanding of the material I will use a number of articles, books as well as online sources. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Form and Meaning of Wordsworth’s "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" Sabrina Travis, 2013-09-02 Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: “Earth has not anything to show more fair”. This line is the first of William Wordsworth’s sonnet “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”. As a romantic poet, Wordsworth usually praises nature and its beauty but this sonnet differs from his other poems. In this text, Wordsworth expresses strong feelings and emotions towards London in the 19th century. He describes London in the morning and surprisingly he is amazed by the beauty of the city itself. How far in detail this poem contrasts with other pieces by Wordsworth will be clarified in the main part. In order to understand the poem and its meaning, it is helpful to take a closer look at different levels of description. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the main linguistic features such as the vocabulary used by Wordsworth and also the discourse structure. Additionally, it is important to consider the significance of the context, the role of the reader as well as their expectations. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Form and Meaning of Wordsworth's Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3 1802 Sabrina Travis, 2013-09 Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: Earth has not anything to show more fair. This line is the first of William Wordsworth's sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. As a romantic poet, Wordsworth usually praises nature and its beauty but this sonnet differs from his other poems. In this text, Wordsworth expresses strong feelings and emotions towards London in the 19th century. He describes London in the morning and surprisingly he is amazed by the beauty of the city itself. How far in detail this poem contrasts with other pieces by Wordsworth will be clarified in the main part.In order to understand the poem and its meaning, it is helpful to take a closer look at different levels of description. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the main linguistic features such as the vocabulary used by Wordsworth and also the discourse structure. Additionally, it is important to consider the significance of the context, the role of the reader as well as their expectations. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth, 2007-03 The classic Wordsworth poem is depicted in vibrant illustrations, perfect for pint-sized poetry fans. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Poetry Handbook John Lennard, 2006-01-05 The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry, from metre to gender, offer a wide-ranging general account, and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne, Elizabeth Bishop, Geoffrey Hill, and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott), to build up sustained analytical readings. Thorough and compact, with notes and quotations supplemented by detailed reference to the Norton Anthology of Poetry and a companion website with texts, links, and further discussion, The Poetry Handbook is indispensable for all school and undergraduate students of English. A final chapter addresses examinations of all kinds, and sample essays by undergraduates are posted on the website. Critical and scholarly terms are italicised and clearly explained, both in the text and in a complete glossary; the volume also includes suggestions for further reading. The first edition, widely praised by teachers and students, showed how the pleasures of poetry are heightened by rigorous understanding and made that understanding readily available. This second edition — revised, expanded, updated, and supported by a new companion website - confirm The Poetry Handbook as the best guide to poetry available in English. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13th, 1798 William Wordsworth, 2002 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Poems William Wordsworth, 1815 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The River Duddon, a Series of Sonnets William Wordsworth, 1820 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth, 1897 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Sonnets of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth, 1838 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals Dorothy Wordsworth, 2008-07-10 These two journals provide a unique picture of daily life with Wordsworth, his friendship with Coleridge, and the composition of his poems. They also offer wonderfully vivid descriptions of the landscape and people of Grasmere and Alfoxden in Somerset, which inspired Wordsworth and have enchanted generations of readers. This edition includes full explanatory notes on the people and places Dorothy writes about. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: A Poet's Guide to Britain Owen Sheers, 2009-10-29 Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology that ties in with the BBC series of the same name. Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to mark and define a collective experience - our identities, our country, our land. He has chosen six powerful poems, all personal favourites, and all poems that have become part of the way we see our landscape. The anthology follows a similar format to the BBC series itself, while also offering paper chains of poems about the landscape and nature of Britain, transcripts of contemporary poet interviews, and a short introduction to each lead poem. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Poems of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth, 1859 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Intimations of Immortality William Wordsworth, Thomas B Mosher, 2018-10-30 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Poems, in Two Volumes William Wordsworth, 2015-12-09 Published seven years after William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s popular collection Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth’s Poems, in Two Volumes shocked readers and drew scornful reviews. Poems was a revolutionary challenge to literary taste in revolution-weary times. The poems were perceived as inappropriately personal and egotistical in the attention that the poet pays to “moods of [his own] mind.” The collection is now seen as containing some of the most enduring works of British Romantic poetry, and Wordsworth’s achievement in opening up new worlds of subject matter, emotion, and poetic expression is widely recognized. Richard Matlak places the initial reaction to Poems in its historical context and explains the sea change in critical and popular opinion about these poems. The extensive historical documents place the poems in the context of Wordsworth’s life, contemporary politics, and the literary world of the early nineteenth century. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Paradise Lost John Milton, 1711 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Break, Blow, Burn Camille Paglia, 2006-01-24 America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut—and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry lovers—and continues to create generations of new ones. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Five Ways to Kill a Man Edwin Brock, 1990 The title poem has been one of the most anthologized poems in England and the U.S. for thirty years. The unforgettable blend of the laconic and the serious is what became instantly recognizable as the Brock voice. He has published nine collections of poetry, a novel, and an autobiography in prose and poetry. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: We are Seven William Wordsworth, 1892 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Dear Life Maya C. Popa, 2022-01-19 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1875 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth, 1827 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry Stephen Tedeschi, 2018 This book re-orientates the relationship between urbanization and English Romantic poetry by focusing on urban aspects of Romantic poems. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Representation of London in William Blake's "london" and William Wordsworth's "composed Upon Westminster Bridge" Annika Bräuer, 2010-12 Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: This work is about the representation of London in William Blake's London and William Wordsworth's Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. The reason for choosing these poems is the contradictoriness at first glance but at second view opens a new perspective, for the two poems complete each other to a general and detailed overview of London and its two different sights. It should display how both poets see London through different perspectives, sum up and compare these differences. One question which could arise while reading the poems could be which of the representations is more realistic for the time. Furthermore it should give an answer to the question, what the authors intended by writing the poems and discuss if there are different intentions. The analysis of the poems focuses mainly on the representation of London. The results will be compared and the questions, which were brought up in this introduction will be answered. 1. Introduction 2. The representation of London in William Blake's London 3. The representation of London in Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802 4. Comparison of the representation of London in both poems 5. Conclusion 6. Bibliography 7. Appendix - Damon, Samual Foster. 1988 [1973]. A Blake dictionary. The ideas and symbols of William Blake. Hannover [etal.]: Univ. Pr. of New England. - Stillinger, Jack & Lynch, Deidre, Shauna. The Romantic Period. In: W.W.Norton& Company, Inc. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1363 - 1884. Eightgh Edition. - Wolfreys, Julian. 1998. Writing London. The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens. Houndmills [etal.]: PALGRAVE. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Songs of Ourselves Cambridge International Examinations, 2005-06-24 Songs of Ourselves: the University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English contains work by more than 100 poets from all parts of the English speaking world. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Descriptive Sketches William Wordsworth, 1793 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Poetry of Wordsworth. Selected and Edited by T. Crehan. William Wordsworth, 1965 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Secret Library Oliver Tearle, 2016-09-29 As well as taking in the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, The Secret Library brings to light more neglected items among the bookshelves of the world. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: William Wordsworth in Context Andrew Bennett, 2015-02-12 This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind William Wordsworth, 1850 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Linguistic Moment Joseph Hillis Miller, 2014-07-14 This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: The Bridge Hart Crane, 1970 Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Select Poems of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth, 1889 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Bloom's Major Poets Set, 40-Volumes Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, 2005-09 Each title, covering three to six poems, features: - A user's guide - An editor's note and introduction by Harold Bloom - A biography of the poet - Detailed thematic analysis of each poem covered - Extracts from major critical essays that discuss important aspects of each poem - A complete bibliography of the writer's poetic works - A list of critical works about the poet and his or her works - An index of themes and ideas in the author's work |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: It's Over. Don't Go There. Kathrin Schmidt, 2021-10-21 These are tales of small, damaged lives that unfold towards sometimes deadly ends. Desolate or downright funny, often they are about women: single and lonely, or ordinary and kind, or who neglect their children, or whose children abuse them. Immigrants, the homeless, the sexually abused, the suicidal - these and other aliens populate a 'left behind' region where a sense of powerlessness holds sway. Gay, straight, or transitioning, most of Schmidt's characters are jobless, and mostly middle-aged, or else very old: a senile paedophile grandmother; another whose stinking belches accompany the wartime trauma she hands down to her offspring, for they too must suffer. Kathrin Schmidt draws us alongside people limited or trapped by circumstances imposed on them, whether by the socialist regime or the one that came after, her stories set variously in the twilight hour of the German Democratic Republic and the post-1989 decade when the GDR was subsumed into the Germany of today. All is not bleak, for adversity generates human kindness and heart-warming responses, even love affairs and comedy. But Schmidt makes her point. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1996 |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Analysis of William Wordsworth's Âupon Westminster Bridgeâ Stefan Küpper, 2010-03 Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Faith and Beauty: Varieties of Religious Poetry in English Literature, language: English, abstract: When William Wordsworth wrote 'Upon Westminster Bridge' in September 1802, London was the economical as well as political centre of England. London set the tone for nearly everything - fashion, worn in London, was imitated in other provincial towns. The city became a metropolis - a place of consumption. But on the other hand, London's big-city appearance had some unwelcome side effects. According to industrial production the city was covered by fog nearly everyday. Streets and other public places were noisy and dirty and a terrible smell, like in Paris at that time, must have filled the air. Many people neglected their religious belief and some of them might even have lost their belief in God. Wordsworth probably wanted to make people aware that there is something more than the big-city life which is connected with hard work for the lower classes and a life of decadence which the upper classes enjoyed. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Roundabout Way Louis MacNeice, Jon Stallworthy, 2012-07-07 Devlin Urquhart, an Oxford student disillusioned with his privileged past and the aesthetic life, heads for Yorkshire and a simpler identity as a gardner. He is employed by a well-connected Colonel in this capacity. But one's past does not lie down quietly, and everywhere Devlin roams, the tendrils of his former life reach out to him. Meanwhile the spirited youngest daughter of an eminent London psychologist rebels against her father's bombastic behaviour by throwing a treasured family heirloom against an antique mirror, shattering both the mirror and her father's complacency. They both go on to play a bizarre role in Devlin's fate. This picaresque, comic novel wittily satirises the social mores and youthful idealism that prevailed in London and the Home Counties between the wars, and will be a treat for the considerable number of MacNeice devotees across the Anglophone world. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism Don H. Bialostosky, 1992-02-28 Wordsworth's poetry has been a focus for many of the theoretical schools of criticism that comprise modern literary studies. Don Bialostosky here proposes to adjudicate the diverse claims of these numerous schools and to trace their implications for teaching. Bialostosky draws on the work of Bakhtin and his followers to create a 'dialogic' critical synthesis of what Wordsworth's readers - from Coleridge to de Man - have made of his poetry. He reveals Wordsworth's poetry as itself 'dialogically' responding to its various contexts, and opens up fruitful possibilities for criticism and teaching of Wordsworth. This challenging book uses the case of Wordsworth studies to make a far-reaching survey of modern literary theory and its implications for the practice of criticism and teaching today. |
| composed upon westminster bridge analysis: Poetical Works William Wordsworth, 1889 |
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