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2.5.UPON WESTMINISTER BRIDGE

William Wordsworth

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ICE BREAKERS

Importance of a Bridge for cities and villages

Preparation before actual construction of a bridge

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School/ College

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Sights that can be

seen from a bridge

Hospital/ Market

Temples / River

Buildings/ Shops

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  • Born on April 7, 1770

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  • A major English Romantic poet,

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  • Poet Laureate’

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  • A Leading English Nature poet.

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  • ‘Lyrical Ballads’ a major work

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  • ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’- examples romantic poem

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  • first published in the ‘Collection of Poems’
  • Petrarchan Sonnet

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Earth has not anything to show more fair:

Dull would he be of 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

Upon Westminster Bridge

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Open unto the fields, and to the sky;

All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep

In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne’er 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 heart is lying still!

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POETIC DEVICES

Petrarchan Sonnet

Personification

Inversion

Archaic Words

Nature Imagery

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ASSIGNMENT

Collect more nature poems from the internet or library, and write down the nature elements depicted in the poem.