Composed upon Westminster Bridge and The World is too much with us

William Wordsworth, poet and writer, born on April 7th, 1770 in a sm in all Cumberland village named Cochermouth, set(p) on the northern edge of the Lake District. He attended infant school in the small town of Hawkshead, located in one of the most splendiferous regions of the Lake District. Wordsworth remained at Hawkshead until the age of 16. There were some long and deeply impressive rumples through the country, which affected his poetry expectantly. You will realize that he heats nature and had a deep loyalty to Britain, even though he lived in France and was married to a French woman.The two poems I will be discussing are The adult male is too overmuch with us and Composed upon Westminster couple. It is interesting to notice that both of these poems take on a Petrarchan sonnet form. The form of a sonnet consists of an octave (first 8 lines) and a sestate (last 6 lines). This gives us a total of 14 lines. However in The demesne is too much with us a unique and significant form is taken on Wordsworth gives the octave 8 and a fractional lines while the sestate has only 5 and a half. Wordsworth put ons the octave for the exhibition or the theme and the sestate for the conclusion.The World is too much with us embodies one of the central ideas of the Romantic Movement in poetry, of which Wordsworth was a founder that in our day-after-day life, especially living in towns, we fix lost touch with the renewing powers of nature. Composed upon Westminster Bridge is a magnificent sonnet, which denominates Wordsworth appreciating and indeed demonstrating the beauty of a great city though perhaps it is characteristic of his love for solitude, and is set in the early morning, when there is no bustle and noise.Throughout both sonnets Wordsworth cleverly employs the character of semicolons, colons, comma or just a full stop. His reasons for this is to deem us pause, reflect and get the true meaning of the line we have just read. In the first two lines of Th e World is too much with us The World is too much with us late and soonGetting and spending, we lay dissolution our powersWordsworth uses both the semicolon and the colon and intends us to think what founding? which power? he gets across that we are being engulfed in the materialistic world and have a lack of concern for nature, thus we take nature for granted and we waste our natural powers.In the corresponding lines of Composed upon Westminster Bridge Earth has not anything to say to a greater extent fairDull would he be of soal who could pass byA sight so touching in its majestyWordsworth utilizes a subroutine of ploys to grab our attention. The opening line is a bold statement meaning he has not ever seen a better sight. The use of the news show globe suggests the supreme quality of such beauty. He uses the words earth, anything and fair to indicate the entire world. In the second line syntax is put to use scare away would he be of soul as opposed to he would be dull of s oul. This is for extra emphasis on the word dull. He also uses enjambment by allowing lines 2 and 3 to flow together as 1 this helps to stress a sight so touching. The repetition of the letter s sound helps to convey the breathless sense of admiration. Touching is a word that we can all relate to whereas majesty shows the importance of nature and how much he was startled by this view.In the next two lines of The World is too much with us Little we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boonHere Wordsworth gives nature a capital letter. This is the first indication in the poem of what it is about. Syntax once more(prenominal) is used where he could have simply written we see little in nature that is ours, which means we dont recognise nature as being resolve of ours. In line two, the poet says we have given our hearts away, our heart is associated with love and without it he is implying we do not appreciate nature in the bearing we should. A sordid boon is a phrase used to convey the meaning of a gift of no value. This hints that we no longer value our love by living in the materialistic world.Wordsworth uses personification in line four of Composed upon Westminster Bridge. A simile is also implied for further understanding.This metropolis now doth, like a garment, wearThe beauty of the morning silent, bareGarment suggests a comfortable easy fit yet the world is more grand than say, clothing, and the beauty of the facial expression is enhanced by implications of resplendent finery. Another capital letter is used in the middle of the sentence on the word city. This shows the importance and beauty of the city. The two lines mean that the city now wears the beauty of the morning again Wordsworth shows us his love and passion for nature.In the corresponding lines of The World is too much with us there is the same punctuation and language affects This Sea that bears her bosom to the moonThe winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowersAgain to show the importance of nature Wordsworth uses a capital letter on sea, which is most of our natural world today. Personification is used on these same lines the sea that bears HER bosom to the moon and the winds that will be HOWLING at all hours. Like sleeping flowers is the simile implied to show the calming after the storm.The octave in Composed upon Westminster Bridge ends with Open unto the fields, and to the skyAll bright and all glittering in the smokeless air.You could to the highest degree say these statements are incorrect, but remember it was the 1800s when this sonnet was composed. When Wordsworth stood upon this bridge he could see everlasting green fields, surrounding London, that lead right to the horizon. Open is a word that could mean anything but in this poem it means that there is a light open feeling to the atmosphere. Smokeless still, pure, unpolluted. Perhaps this reminds us of how the scene will change once days of smoky industry begin.For this, for everything, we are out of tuneIt moves us not.These are the last one and a half lines of the octave in The World is too much with us. Wordsworth suggests here that we are out of tune. Thus hinting we are not in harmony with nature. This again shows the difference of tone. In composed upon Westminster Bridge the tone is a hushed, almost breathless admiration. He was surprised by sudden vision of splendor and became more emotional whereas he recognizes the materialistic living in The World is too much with us.The sestet of The World is too much with us opens with spectacular God. Wordsworth recognises Gods great power of nature but he would also rather be a Pagan because Pagans appreciated nature. He wants to see glimpses to make him less sad and a glimpse would keep the suspense and make him more aloof. Proteus and Triton are Greek Gods. Proteus Greek sea God and Triton one of a race of minor sea Gods in Greek mythology, with a mans form but the tail of a fish, frequently depicted as carrying a shell trumpet.In the sestet of composed upon Westminster Bridge Wordsworth seems very happy with the view of London city with the sun rising. He says such things as Never did the sun more beautifully steep, and Neer saw I, never felt, a calm so deep which is other cleaver use of syntax. This is a change from The World is too much with us as in that sonnet the wonderful natural scenery in which he was writing made him sad to think about how people dont appreciate it anymore.Dear God is also used in composed upon Westminster Bridge. This is maybe his prayer to God to keep nature so beautiful whereas in The World is too much with us, he used great God as to say WAKE UPWe (the readers) can visualize and relate to the wonderful scenery Wordsworth describes effectively, with language and punctuation to convey his meaning.