Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Analysus

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In the sonnet written by William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, the author illustrates the audience with the picture of Thames River, seen from Westminster Bridge, in the city of London, at the time its surroundings are calm and quiet, in contrast to its environment during the day when the industrial activity invade the streets, an image of England´s Industry Development in the XVIII Century. The elaboration of this sonnet rises from the view Wordsworth had at Westminster Bridge during his trip across the English Channel to France on July 31 of 1802 Composed Upon Westminster Bridge poem is structured in the form of a sonnet, being two types of sonnets in English, the Petrarchan and the Shakespearean. Wordsworth poem is a Petrarchan Sonnet, consisting of an octave, eight line stanza, and a sestet, six line stanza. The first stanza presents the theme and the seconds develops such theme. The rhyme is structured as ABBAABBA in the octave, while the sestet scheme is CDCDCD. The rhythm in the poem is shaped by the use of alliteration, “ships, towers, domes and temples”, and the variety in punctuation. The author opens the poem with personification in the first line, “Earth has nothing to show more fair”, as a symbolic mechanism in the attempt to project that there is not anything more wonderful in earth than the view from Westminster Bridge early in the morning, additionally he points out that dull of soul will someone who doesn’t appreciates such view. “Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty”. Moreover, we spot again the use of personification in the simile: “This City now doth, like a garment, wear”, giving the city the possibility to wear cloth, in this case a garment, a religious symbol of protection from the devils, symbolizing that the setting consists of divinity and can´t be corrupted, “The beauty of the
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