Since he has more experience in describing nature, he now describes a city´s beauty in natural terms. In order to describe the beauty of this city, Wordsworth uses well-known pictures from the wordfield of nature. Everything is calm and quiet, people are still asleep, the sun is shining and the chimneys of the industry have not yet started polluting the air. The poem´s main emphasis lies on a subjective description of the city of London at morning. In fact, it is not important to elaborate if this is true or not, since Wordsworth - the speaker of this poem – is only talking about HIS feelings and impressions. Many sources claim that Wordsworth was accompanied by his sister, since she wrote about the walk over Westminster Bridge in her diary. On this September morning in 1802 he walks across London´s Westminster Bridge and gets enchanted – but not by nature that catches his eye, but by the sight of a city. And Wordsworth, as a wanderer on earth who paid much attention to his environment, was able to SEE this reality with all their beauty - and put it into words. Most of his poems can therefore in one way or another be related to nature.
He was a poet with faith in the beauty of nature. In poems like “I wandered lonely as a cloud” and “A slumber did my spirit seal” he portrayed nature as gorgeous majesty where life begins and ends in. The idea that nature´s beauty is worth writing poems about was not new to the poet Wordsworth.
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