A Complaint - William Wordsworth

Question 1

THEMES (3)

Answer 1

1. time & change
2. love & heartbreak
3. loss and reminiscence

Question 2

PERSPECTIVE

Answer 2

love was a source of wealth (for Wordsworth) and its loss left him poor

Question 3

DICTION

illustrating the change in his “wealth”

Answer 3

love was “a fountain” (essential to life as it provided water to the public), then turned into a “fount” (sacred, used in churches) and then a “well” (hidden, disguised).

Question 4

DICTION

change in lexis used to describe love

Answer 4

flowing, “murmuring, sparkling, living” -> sleeping “in silence and obscurity”

Question 5

What happy moments did I count!

Answer 5

Blest was I then all bliss above!

Question 6

What have I? shall I dare to tell?

Answer 6

A comfortless and hidden well.

Question 7

A well of love–it may be deep–

Answer 7

(…) What matter? if the waters sleep

In silence and obscurity.

Question 8

There is a change–and I am poor

Answer 8

Your love hath been, nor long ago

A fountain at my fond heart’s door

Question 9

Such change, and at the very door

Answer 9

Of my fond heart, hath made me poor.

Question 10

RHYME SCHEME

Answer 10

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Question 11

STRUCTURE

Answer 11

cyclical

Question 12

FORM

Answer 12

3 sestets