A Complaint Flashcards
“There is a change - and I am poor”
Wordsworth sets a grieving tone from the start of the poem. The adjective “poor” suggests something has occurred to make the speaker lose something important.
“A fountain at my fond heart’s door”
Wordsworth uses this to imply that the speaker has took this change quite strongly to heart and it has affected him greatly. Just as his life has changed he too has changed because of it.
“Blest was I then all bliss above”
Wordsworth uses the emotive language, “all bliss above” to emphasise speakers regret that things aren’t what they used to be which is reinforced by the past tense verb “was”.
“Such a change, and at the very door
Of my fond heart, hath made me poor”
Wordsworth links back to the start of the poem, and by using this cyclical structure, it implies that those who fall in love will inevitably fall out, becoming ‘poor’.
