Upon Westminster Bridge - William Wordsworth

Advantages: Memorable poem!
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...the city, Wordsworth's title: "composed upon Westminster Bridge" is in a way romantic and euphoric when compared with Blake's "London" - he is dismissing it as London and giving it no other credit for the huge industrialised machine that it has become. One should note that Blake's poem was written at the end of a centaury where as Wordsworth's was written at the beginning of the next, suggesting that the latter would be more imaginative and appreciative, ...
...the sun has never shone upon something so beautiful "In his first splendour, valley, rock or hill.". This highlights the difference in time of day between Wordsworth's and Blake's poems. Wordsworth's is obviously set in the brilliant morning sun, where as Blake's is set in the middle of the night ("…through midnight streets I hear…"). Wordsworth then says that he has never seen or felt "a calm so deep", repeating the word never twice. I think he ... Read review