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A Complaint-William Wordsworth (Full Poem)


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A Complaint:- 


There is a change—and I am poor;
Your love hath been, nor long ago,
A fountain at my fond heart's door,
Whose only business was to flow;
And flow it did; not taking heed
Of its own bounty, or my need.



What happy moments did I count!
Blest was I then all bliss above!
Now, for that consecrated fount
Of murmuring, sparkling, living love,
What have I? shall I dare to tell?
A comfortless and hidden well.


A well of love—it may be deep—
I trust it is,—and never dry:
What matter? if the waters sleep
In silence and obscurity.
—Such change, and at the very door
Of my fond heart, hath made me poor.




Summary And Theme:

Poem 'A Complaint' is an example of romantic poetry. For an opening line of "A Complaint", it is a dark, sombre message of the grief that is yet to come – it sets the tone for the rest of 'A Complaint', and opens up the idea of this loss as being something personally shaking. 'A Complaint' speaks about a grave change that the poet has undergone in his life – someone in his life, a friend, a lover – has gone away from him, or has changed his ideals, and remains no longer the person that the poem knows, the person that the poet cared for and loved; he has become, instead, a stranger that he does not know, and this leads the poet to lament the fact that his heart has led him into misery; that his emotions for this person whom he had once held so closely have now become a problematic, trying thing for him.



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