William Wordsworth 'Boey Kim Cheng's Westminster Bridge'

In the poem ‘Westminster Bridge’ William Wordsworth wrote a poem about his love towards nature. Wordsworth wrote the poem in a sonnet form to express his intense love towards nature. Wordsworth also highlights the beauties of London, to show that London is quiet, serene and tranquil. However, in the poem ‘Report to Wordsworth’ Boey Kim Cheng wrote a poem about Wordsworth’s ‘Westminster’s Bridge’ of how much the modern world now has gone downhill and the modern world is killing nature is due to the actions of humanity. In Wordsworth’s time, it was not like this at all. Wordsworth presented in the poem that the environment was beautiful. Cheng writes ‘Report to Wordsworth’ to Wordsworth suggesting that because he is a romantic poet and loved nature so much, humanity needed Wordsworth to help him because the earth is dying.
First of all, there are not many cities nearby during when Wordsworth wrote the poem. ‘The beauty of the morning; silent, bare.’ Wordsworth denotes how beautiful London was of a city especially when there is no one around and the beauty of nature can highlight London’s structures. Silent refers to the peacefulness of the city in the morning, enhancing the beauties of London. Bare denotes something that is exposed, but also connotes the purity and the freshness of the city. When Wordsworth wrote this poem, his

The flowers are mute because flowers cannot speak and they are not able to express their pain. ‘The birds are few in a sky’. Euphemism is presented make it sound more polite. This implies that the birds are dying because of pollution. Birds symbolizes freedom, and now that they are gone; the sense of freedom that the world has taken away from humanity is a punishment of humanity’s actions. ‘Slowing like a dying clock’. The clock symbolizes that time passes by and cannot be taken back which provides the reader a sense that earth’s time is running