Westminster Bridge Flashcards
Wordsworth context facts (3)
ROMANTIC
ATHEIST
LAKE DISTRICT
Upon Westminster Bridge - date
1802
Theme : synergy between London landscape and natural world. Q. (3)
‘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’
Form XXXX sonnet
PETRARCHAN
Petrarchan sonnet facts
14 lines
IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Iambic Pentameter rhyme pattern
AB BA AB BA CD CD CD
Volta - lines 8 & 9
Begins to compare view of London to the countryside / Lake District (home)
List with commas rather than connectives - term and Q
Asyndetic list
‘Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie’
Personification Q (3)
‘Mighty heart’
‘The very houses seem asleep’
‘In his first splendour’ (his = the sun)
Visual imagery Q
‘Bright, glittering in the smokeless air’
overall impression of quietness and peace
‘Ne’er saw I, nor felt, a calm so deep!’