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I'm trying to do a critical appreciation for this poem, can someone help?

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!

-- William Wordsworth


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Usually you would study the poem line by line, judging how it speaks to you and what it may remind you of. This has to be your own critique, because it means you are simply giving your own opinion. We can't supply you with that.