Question

Short summary of London summer morning

Answer 1

 In “London’s Summer Morning,” Mary Robinson contradicts the positive and negative connotations of the beauty and chaos in the typical London morning. Robinson describes the chaotic environment of the mornings in London. She introduces the poem with negative words such as, “sooty, dingy, hot, and noisy” to present a chaotic setting and give the reader a sense of the mood of the poem. However, Robinson changes her word choice to a positive mood with words such as, “cools, splendor, glittering, and gay” to present the positive aspects of the streets of London. Despite Robinson’s choice to start and end the poem with negative connotations, she has an underlying argument that explains the beautiful consumerism that takes place in the chaotic nature of the mornings in London.

Answer 2

In “London’s Summer Morning,” Mary Robinson contradicts the positive and negative connotations of the beauty and chaos in the typical London morning. Robinson describes the chaotic environment of the mornings in London. She introduces the poem with negative words such as, “sooty, dingy, hot, and noisy” to present a chaotic setting and give the reader a sense of the mood of the poem. However, Robinson changes her word choice to a positive mood with words such as, “cools, splendor, glittering, and gay” to present the positive aspects of the streets of London. Despite Robinson’s choice to start and end the poem with negative connotations, she has an underlying argument that explains the beautiful consumerism that takes place in the chaotic nature of the mornings in London.Robinson begins her description of the unpleasant morning by describing the smoky streets and the soot-covered chimney boy yelling out his business to start promoting early in the morning. Following the obnoxious yelling boy, noisy sounds of the wagons and carts, and vendors begin to set up their shops. This brings upon a feeling of annoyance since many people are sleeping.

              Robinson changes the tone of the poem by changing her word choice. “And the fresh-sprinkled pavement cools the feet of early walkers” (16). “Fresh-sprinkled” and “cools” bring about a sense of relief in the poem. The barefoot people have been scorched by the hot sun and are receiving relief from the damp pavement. Along with a sense of relief, the reader are receiving a sense of appreciation of beauty in lines twenty to twenty-fourRobinson explains how scorching the sun is in the beginning of the poem, but then shows appreciation stating, “now the sun darts burning splendor on the glittering pane, save where the canvas awning throws a shade on the gay merchandise. Now spruce and trim, in shops (where beauty smiles with industry)” (24). This quote shows the beauty customers see in the store windows. The sun almost acts as an asset to the merchandise by drawing the consumers eyes to the glittering pane displaying the beautiful merchandise below.