An essay I did in year 8 (UK) comparing "Glasgow Sonnet" and "Westminster Bridge".

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Glasgow sonnet and Westminster Bridge are very different poems. Edwin Morgan describes Glasgow as a cold, dark and a depressing place, were as William Wordsworth describes Westminster as a warm, light and uplifting place. This essay will compare these poems. In Glasgow sonnet, Edwin Morgan describes Glasgow as having a mean wind. "A mean wind wonders though the backcourt trash". This suggests that the wind blows around rubbish, so no one bothers to collect the …

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…I think this because the person in the poem can see to the fields and now days you definitely can't see fields from Westminster Bridge! I think that the both the poets, Edwin Morgan and William Wordsworth have a very good way at describing places because they use very powerful describing words like "majesty" and "hackles". I liked both of the poems a lot because they show how different peoples opinions are towards different places.