The Notorious Brooklyn Bridge Analysis
Gregory Blanc
Prof.Christina Sassi-Lehner
Eng 12
10/14/14
The Spectacular Notorious Brooklyn Bridge
When you hear the word bridge, I’m sure the first thing that comes to mind is connection. Yes, connection is such a vague word when we talk about a bridge but it blossoms in variety and definitions when we specify the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge is the first bridge built in New york City 1883. The first of many construction work that would build the well known juggernaut of a city that we have here today. Many people view the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of new york city and for great reason,. The Brooklyn Bridge connected Brooklyn to Manhattan island and was the upstart of urban working and a spike in business in the city. …show more content…
He had a different way of approaching his explanation of the bridge. As opposed to describing the bridge itself he came up comparing and contrasting the bridge to the Brooklyn ferries beforehand. He praised the Brooklyn ferries and the beautiful rides they would give. It would give beautiful views of the city and gve you much time to admire the crispness of the water and the city. He praised the ferries and felt bad for the future generations that will come, because they wont understand the preciousness and advantages that the ferry had but only the disadvantages. In the words of Mumford, “Those wonderful long ferry rides! Alas for a later generation that cannot guess how the opened the city up, or how the change of pace and place from swift to slow, from land to water, had a specially, stimulating effect upon the mind”(841). He surely loved his ferries but not even he could resist the ,magnificence of the great Brooklyn Bridge. According to Mumford, he has walked all the bridges that crossed Long Island on to Manhattan but he didn’t love any bridge as much as he loved the Brooklyn Bridge. His reasoning behind this is because the Brooklyn Bridge takes on such a prestigious form, with its Gothic stone walls. …show more content…
Going onto the bridge from the Brooklyn side during a sunset maybe the most breathtaking thing you can do and the most breathtaking sight to see in New York city. The view of the sky scrapers of lower Manhattan competing in height across that sky as the sunset is occurring, gives u a sense of freedom sand luck to be living in this country. The towering height of the new freedom tower paints the background of the bridge like a painting of the future. Mayakovsky and Mumford were utterly socked and amazed at the site they saw but I 'm sure this site was nothing possibly imaginable for them. After reading the poems of these two writers I was able to fixate my mind on the little things to appreciate as you cross the bridge. The beauty of this bridge that not many people have the luxury to cross every day. The beautiful architecture and the time the spent to build the cable wires and stone walls. The little things as the Statue if Liberty and the sunset behind the buildings in the crisp water are many thing that make this city such a joy to live in ad Mumford and Mayakovsky reiterate that and convince young people that this bridge is indeed an integral art of history and art of the future. As an alternative, walking across this bridge and encountering the people full of life and the people on the bicycles happy, wile you witness the ferries and boats and city
Prof.Christina Sassi-Lehner
Eng 12
10/14/14
The Spectacular Notorious Brooklyn Bridge
When you hear the word bridge, I’m sure the first thing that comes to mind is connection. Yes, connection is such a vague word when we talk about a bridge but it blossoms in variety and definitions when we specify the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge is the first bridge built in New york City 1883. The first of many construction work that would build the well known juggernaut of a city that we have here today. Many people view the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of new york city and for great reason,. The Brooklyn Bridge connected Brooklyn to Manhattan island and was the upstart of urban working and a spike in business in the city. …show more content…
He had a different way of approaching his explanation of the bridge. As opposed to describing the bridge itself he came up comparing and contrasting the bridge to the Brooklyn ferries beforehand. He praised the Brooklyn ferries and the beautiful rides they would give. It would give beautiful views of the city and gve you much time to admire the crispness of the water and the city. He praised the ferries and felt bad for the future generations that will come, because they wont understand the preciousness and advantages that the ferry had but only the disadvantages. In the words of Mumford, “Those wonderful long ferry rides! Alas for a later generation that cannot guess how the opened the city up, or how the change of pace and place from swift to slow, from land to water, had a specially, stimulating effect upon the mind”(841). He surely loved his ferries but not even he could resist the ,magnificence of the great Brooklyn Bridge. According to Mumford, he has walked all the bridges that crossed Long Island on to Manhattan but he didn’t love any bridge as much as he loved the Brooklyn Bridge. His reasoning behind this is because the Brooklyn Bridge takes on such a prestigious form, with its Gothic stone walls. …show more content…
Going onto the bridge from the Brooklyn side during a sunset maybe the most breathtaking thing you can do and the most breathtaking sight to see in New York city. The view of the sky scrapers of lower Manhattan competing in height across that sky as the sunset is occurring, gives u a sense of freedom sand luck to be living in this country. The towering height of the new freedom tower paints the background of the bridge like a painting of the future. Mayakovsky and Mumford were utterly socked and amazed at the site they saw but I 'm sure this site was nothing possibly imaginable for them. After reading the poems of these two writers I was able to fixate my mind on the little things to appreciate as you cross the bridge. The beauty of this bridge that not many people have the luxury to cross every day. The beautiful architecture and the time the spent to build the cable wires and stone walls. The little things as the Statue if Liberty and the sunset behind the buildings in the crisp water are many thing that make this city such a joy to live in ad Mumford and Mayakovsky reiterate that and convince young people that this bridge is indeed an integral art of history and art of the future. As an alternative, walking across this bridge and encountering the people full of life and the people on the bicycles happy, wile you witness the ferries and boats and city