Sonnet 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' by William Wordsworth Summery

                                 Sonnet     

        Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth

 

Earth has not anything to show more fair:

Dull would be so 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, theatres, and temples lie

Open out the fields, and to the sky; 

All bright and glittering in the  smokeless air.

Never did sun more beautifully steep

In his first splendor, velly, rock,or hill;

Never 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 hearts lying  still!

 

 

 

 Summery and Analysis

The Sonnet is in the octave-sestet design rhyming abba cdcdcd, an Italian rather than an English piece. Subsequent to having learned about Wordsworth's wonderful personality, 'Westminister Bridge' comes as a shock, Wordsworth's doubt of the city due to the manner in which it infringes upon nature, cutting off the man-nature ties found in graceful articulation. In addition, the city was antagonistic and uproarious from which the artist looked to disappear to the tranquil spaces of the Lake District.

In this poem, in any case, the tone is celebratory, on the grounds that it depicts a second previously, when the occupants were off the roads, in bed, maybe snoozing, and it is that of season of the morning when quietness envelopes the city. The sonnet catches when he went through London, in July 1802. In a few different notes he recorded that the lines happened to him on the top of a mentor. It was maybe finished on September third. His sister, Dorothy's journal section for the excursion upheld the portrayal of London made in the sonnet.

The initial three lines acquaint the peruser with what the remainder of the sonnet is probably going to contain a nitty gritty portrayal of a spot that is glorious and spectacular, and expected to contact each spirit. The following four lines pressure, through the straightforward word, "presently" that London resembles this at a specific mark of time. For the writer, it is that place of time which is significant.

 The morning resembles a dress covering the city flawlessly - the magnificence is contained at the time of quiet which says a lot of the solidarity among nature and society. There is by all accounts a continuum between what is man-made, for example fake and nature "the sky", "the fields", since they loan themselves to an encounter of congruity. The air too for that snapshot of morning is liberated from anything hostile or disagreeable. Yet again the possibility of congruity is made by pictures of agreement.

 The closing sestet builds up the uniqueness of the experience, through the tedious sound of Never. "Ne'er saw I, never felt, a quiet so profound!" This experience of London becomes unique in the existence of the artist since it spreads a feeling of quiet and the thought is associated with the feeling of "sweet will" in the following line. The excellence, the security are brought into the world of a feeling of opportunity - living like nature with its own volition.

The end lines stretch out the continuum to incorporate God the maker of the human heart which is prepared to do such a wide scope of feelings, reactions and encounters. It finds a sense of contentment with itself since it enjoys consumed the harmony outside. Pundits have likewise highlighted the glorification of a city of London which is the pride of any Englishman.