Compare And Contrast the state of London

Compare And Contrast the state of London

Introduction

When we critically analyze William Wordsworth, it is safe to assume that the source of critique will always be a poem, a genre for which he was most well known. But what does his poem have anything to do with the city of London and its particular state of condition at the time. In his poem, the sonnet “Composed upon a Westminster Bridge 3rd September 1802” by William Wordsworth is a fleeting sort of poem that was written when the bus on which his sister and myself were boarded, stalled on the Westminster Bridge while on the way from London to Paris.

In this particular poem, Wordsworth is describing what he looks at, perceives and experiences on a particular at that particular time. Come to think of it, had the day of September 3rd, 1802 not been a day of chaos, rain and smog that cast a shadow on the whole of city, people today would not have this beautiful poem to enjoy. According to Wordsworth, London is stated to be “the vast metropolis” and “great emporium”. Also, he stated that he “conversed with majesty and power like independent natures” and the London was “thronged with impregnations like the wilds in which my early feelings had been nursed”. It means that the city environment of London at the time was providing energy of literary creation.

In this sense, Wordsworth perceives London to be a place of renaissance and a place for the most creatively charged people to be situated. Wordsworth's focus is more on London's Landscape rather than the people of London. His focus is mainly on the Lake District and landscape of the country side rather than the surrounding cities. Wordsworth may have been returning after a very long time to the city because he portrays the city in such a way as though he had missed it a lot. His poem is very optimistic about London to the extent that it can be used as an advertisement for visiting London.

Discussion

In Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 Sept. 1802, he handles events and experiences related to the city of London. It is true that he shows repulsion for London through this work of literature, but on the other hand, it is also true that he was strangely allured continuously by the charm of the city. Especially in the poem, London's metropolitan modernity does not suffer by comparison with its so-called urban-romanticism.

The poem shows that that Wordsworth was practically participated to the expansion of the metropolitan flow. Additionally, from a very liberal point of view, Wordsworth's urban-rhetoric poem illustrates the modernity of London which had already progressed in early romanticism.

It provided the opportunity to recalibrate in progressive points of succession and development rather than severance when evaluate Wordsworth's poem in regard to modern poetry. In the poem, there are unusual metaphors which Wordsworth uses and he brings forth London as a linguistic composition which disentangled from ...