A Level English Literature

At least a B grade from either English or English Language GCSE. It is preferred that students have at least a B grade in English Literature GCSE.

Explore how Wordsworth in his two sonnets portray different views of the natural world. You will be assessed for AO1 and AO2. See the mark scheme.

 Earth has not anything to show more fair:  Dull would he be of soul who could pass by  A sight so touching in its majesty:  This City now doth, like a garment, wear  The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,  Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie  Open unto the fields, and to the sky;  All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.  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 river glideth at his own sweet will:  Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;  And all that mighty heart is lying still!

 The world is too much with us; late and soon,  Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—  Little we see in Nature that is ours;  We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!  This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;  The winds that will be howling at all hours,  And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;  For this, for everything, we are out of tune;  It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be  A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;  So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,  Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;  Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;  Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

How does the poet use language and structure to show his love of London on an early morning in September 1802? Use this to help you in your summer task.