Westminster Bridge Flashcards

1
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Wordsworth context facts (3)

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ROMANTIC
ATHEIST
LAKE DISTRICT

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2
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Upon Westminster Bridge - date

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1802

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3
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Theme : synergy between London landscape and natural world. Q. (3)

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‘The City doth, like a garment wear, the beauty of the morning, silent, bare’

‘Lie open unto the fields and to the sky’

‘The river glideth at his own sweet will’

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4
Q

Form XXXX sonnet

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PETRARCHAN

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5
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Petrarchan sonnet facts

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14 lines

IAMBIC PENTAMETER

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6
Q

Iambic Pentameter rhyme pattern

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AB BA AB BA CD CD CD

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7
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Volta - lines 8 & 9

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Begins to compare view of London to the countryside / Lake District (home)

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8
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List with commas rather than connectives - term and Q

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Asyndetic list

‘Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie’

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9
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Personification Q (3)

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‘Mighty heart’

‘The very houses seem asleep’

‘In his first splendour’ (his = the sun)

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10
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Visual imagery Q

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‘Bright, glittering in the smokeless air’

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11
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overall impression of quietness and peace

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‘Ne’er saw I, nor felt, a calm so deep!’

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