In William Wordsworth's poem "Composed upon Westminster Bridge," how does the speaker sense the "mighty heart" of London by viewing, from a Romantic...

In his poem
titled Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802,writes in a Romantic mode about the
mighty heart of the City of London. He does so in a number of ways, including the
following:

• In line 1, the speaker immediately mentions Earth €“
  a fact that already helps suggest that this may be a Romantic poem. Whereas poets of earlier
  centuries often emphasized God, heaven, and the afterlife, the Romantics tended to be concerned
  with the visible world before them. The brief reference to God at the very end of this poem
  might almost seem perfunctory; certainly Christian themes are not stressed in this work as they
  might have been in a poem written, say, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century.


• In the rest of line 1, the speaker shows enthusiasm for beauty €“ another common
  feature of Romantic poetry.
• In line 2, the speaker posits the existence of
  persons whose souls are Dull €“ persons precisely the opposite of the Romantic, with...