Wordsworth has often been described as the poet of nature. He said of his early experience of nature that it was an unfailing source of " Joy of purest passion." How is this evident in his poetry?

The next set of lines are a mixture of metaphors and similes. These are describing nature and what has happened to it.

'The wind that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;'

The first line is a metaphor and the second is a simile. These lines mean that nature will be ignored unless we start to learn to relax. They also mean that any changes to nature will go unnoticed as well.

In the next two lines there is a significant change to the mood of the poem.

'For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not.-Great God !'

In this part of the poem Wordsworth starts to question his up bringing. Wordsworth is obviously annoyed with the way we treat this world. He feels that we need to learn to respect the world that we have been given by God. This signals the start of the sestate in this poem. Wordsworth uses the sestate to good effect by changing the mood from the octave.

From this point in the poem Wordsworth says how he wishes he had been brought up as a pagan, which would mean he would believe in his own gods.

'I'd Rather be

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;'

This statement confirms that Wordsworth would much rather have been brought up as a Pagan so that he could show that he respected nature even if the rest of the world did not. Later on in the poem Wordsworth talks about Greek Gods. He includes 'Proteus' who was a major Greek sea God and he also mentions 'Triton' who was only a minor Greek God. Wordsworth would not have mentioned them in one of his poems if they had not respected nature.

From this explanation it is clear that Wordworth writes his poems with joy and purest passion when writing about nature. He is making a remark about how we, as the keepers of the world, mistreat it by not relaxing and enjoying the world, instead we choose to worry about our economy.

' Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' is Wordsworth's view of the sun coming up over London early in the morning. This poem was written in twenty minutes. Wordsworth wrote the poem whilst on his way to France.

This poem is also a petrachan sonnet. A patrachan sonnet has fourteen lines. This kind of sonnet has a rhyming patern of 'A,B,B,A' in the octave, and 'C,D,C,D' in the sestate. This poem also has iambic pentametre which means in each line there are five stressed syllables and five unstressed syallbles.

The fist set of lines from this poem is about how Wordsworth was amazed by the veiw of London considering it is a major European city.

'Earth has not any thing to show more fair:

Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

A sight so touching in its majesty:'

This statement is pretty convincing as Wordsworth grew up in the Lake District and yet he can still find this view of the sun to be so amazing. From this I can see that Wordsworth would have had no time at all for anyone who does not respect nature. He also says that this sight deserves to be a royal view by saying about 'its majesty'.

Wordsworth now goes on to use a simple simile with a good contradiction in just two lines.

'This City now doth, like a garment, wear

The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,'

First Wordsworth says that the city is wearing some thing and then says it is bare. Wordsworth says that the city is wearing the beauty of the morning, but then says that the city is bare because there are no people around in London at this time of morning.

Wordsworth now goes on to describe the sun in more detail from the bridge.

'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 first line of the quote says that Wordsworth has never seen the sun make anything look better than it did that morning in London. He then says he has not even seen it have that affect in the country side. He also says that this is a calming sight.

Wordsworth now ends the poem with a very effective simile. This ends the poem on a positve note.

'Dear God! the very house seem asleep;

And all that mighty heart is lying still!'

The simile describes London as a mighty heart which is still in the morning but will jump into life later on during day. There is also personification in the first line, Wordsworth is saying that the houses are people but they are asleep in the morning.

From this explanation it is clear that Wordworth writes his poems with joy and purest passion when he is writing about nature because he even found beauty in a major city when he wrote this poem.

In conclusion Wordsworth is the poet of nature and he definitely writes his poetry with joy and passion. This is most evident in 'The World is Too Much With Us' and 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'.