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  • Essay / Analysis of the composition composed on Westminster Bridge by William...

    Wordsworth launches the poem with two hyperboles. He first says: “The Earth has nothing more beautiful to show” (1). Here, he exaggerates this exceptional spectacle to make the reader understand how dazzling his gaze is. Then he says: “He would be boring who could pass that way” (2). His exaggeration here is that if a person is not captivated enough by this view to stop, then he must not have a soul. After these two lines, Worth uses a multitude of personifications. He said: “This city now wears, like a garment, the beauty of the morning; silent, naked. (4-5). Here he personifies the city by giving it the possibility of clothing itself. In doing so, he makes it seem like London's beauty is temporary and simply comes from the clothes she decided to wear that day. And in the twelfth line he says: “The river flows as it pleases:” (12). On this line, the river is personified and given the ability to control its rhythm. Then in the next line he says, “Dear God! The houses themselves seem asleep” (13). Here, houses are personified by the possibility of sleeping like humans. All this personification is used because it reinforces the idea that the chances of this happening are low. By making each aspect of London its own entity, it gives the impression that each facet of London was doing the right thing at the right time to create this