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What does the personification in the last two lines of the poem aim to achieve? It highlights the harmony between man and nature. It emphasizes the strangeness of the city's beauty. It suggests that the city is like a complex living thing. It implies the timeless quality of city life. Done Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth Earth has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towe

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It is describing the strangeness of the city.
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It emphasizes the strangeness of the city's beauty
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