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Started off the day with class. Then some
of us headed over to Westminster Abbey Once we got into Westminster Abbey it was pretty cool. The architecture was amazing. We weren’t allowed to take pictures or I’d show you. We saw Elizabeth I’s grave. That was cool. But the best part, the part where we freaked out, was when we went to the Poet’s Corner.
We saw the graves of
Robert Browning, Tennyson, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling,
Thomas Hardy, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Dryden. They had memorials to lots of
other people not buried at Westminster Abbey too: John Milton, Wordsworth, John
Keats, Percy Shelley, William Blake, T.S. Eliot, Jane Austen, the Bronte
sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, George Frederic Handel,
Laurence Olivier, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Winston Churchill, Samuel Coleridge,
Caedmon, Christopher Marlowe, John Ruskin, and William Shakespeare. So many
cool people! I couldn’t get over it. There were so many authors and poets right
next to each other. It was overwhelming to see so many of them all at once. And
several of them had amazing quotes on their grave markers. Definitely the best
part of my time at Westminster. I bought an adorable umbrella in the gift shop
too. It’s a clear one with the London skyline around the bottom.
