‘Ne’er saw I never felt a calm so deep!’ What prompts the poet to say so?

‘Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!’ – the quoted line is taken from Wordsworth‘s poem ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’. The poem is a part of West Bengal Council of Higher Education Class XI English book. We sort out the line because this is an important line of the said poem and many questions often come in exam from the line. We provide an question i.e What prompts the poet to say so? Not only that we provide the best answer of that question. From that note you can easily answer any question which come in exam.

‘Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!’ What prompts the poet to say so?

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In the Sestet part of the poem, ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’, the poet uses a poetic device called ‘Hyperbeton’. The poet wants to emphasis the idea of serenity and calmness of the early morning, spread over the city of London, visible from the Westminster Bridge. The tranquillity of the early morning without hustle and bustle marks London as an exceptional place altogether. The serenity, emanating from the atmosphere stuns the poet. Gleaming in the sunlight, man made structures, blended in with landscape across the horizon make the poet splendid. The houses are still asleep and the mighty hearts of the city is lying still. In the end it can be frankly acknowledged that the poet is prompted by the profound serenity and calmness of the early morning when every day’s hustle and hurry has not started yet.

Other Questions Answers from ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’

1. ‘Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!’ What prompts the poet to say so?

2. “Earth has not anything to show more fair” – What prompts the poet to say so? / How does the the poet in the rest of the poem establish the word ‘fair’?

3. Bring out the significance of the first line of the poem ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’.

4. Write a Note on the significance of the title of the poem ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’.

5. Write the substance of the poem ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’.

6. Write the central idea of the poem ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’.

7. “Dull would he be of soul who could pass by” Who says this and where? What prompts the poet to say this? What does the poet want to convey here?

8. “A sight is so touching in its majesty” What is the sight referred to here? What does the poet feel about the Sight? Who would be dull of soul and why? / How does the poet describe the sight?

9. How does the poet look upon the Sun in ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’? What is so deep and why?

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