The Daffodils and Composed Upon Westminster Bridge...

Essay question on the comparison between two poems by Wordsworth Q. Compare and contrast how Wordsworth depicts nature in ‘The Daffodils’ and ‘Sonnet : Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’. (2-3 pages) The question asks you to compare how Wordsworth illuminates and expresses nature in the two poems written by him, ‘The Daffodils’ and ‘Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’. There are some similarities and differences in the two poems, and these create different atmosphere even though both poems are about nature. For example, in the poem ‘The Daffodils’, the subject of the poem are flowers, which are small and tiny, while the poem ‘Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ expresses the landscape of the ‘city’, which sounds pretty†¦show more content†¦The number of times ‘dancing’ has been mentioned is numerous, and this created a cheerful, active atmosphere in the poem, while the ‘Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ has more of static atmosphere due to its subject matter, which are buildings, early morning when not much people are on the street. Similes can also be mentioned in the Daffodils, which created imaginative, and impressive feeling that Apparently rhyme scheme is used in both poems, which usually creates rhythmic tone in the poem. However, we can find out that the structure and the sequence of the rhyme is different. While ‘Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ has a sequence of ABBAABBA(Octave) – DEDEDE(Sestet), which is called ‘Petrarchan Sonnet’, ‘The Daffodils’ has a sequence of ABABCC in each stanza, which appears to be more structured and organized which also affected on the cheerful atmosphere on ‘The Daffodils’. The structure is also taking an important part in the two poems, and it’s clear that the two poems have different structures: Sonnet – Octave Sestet; The Daffodils – Organized four st anzas with same lines. In the Sonnet, the octave represents the city, how it looks like when in the early morning, and the sestet represents the nature inside the city, which the poet omitted in order that he was busy with something else, as other urban