FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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metaphor
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simile
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emotive language
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rhyme
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Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout “A Complaint, ” the speaker uses an extended metaphor to explore and explain feelings of loss. This metaphor compares the love that the speaker’s relationship once offered to a richly flowing fountain, which becomes stagnant and still upon that love’s loss.
Detailed explanation-2: -PERSONIFICATION| Describing a non-human object using human characteristics. In the line “Of murmuring, sparkling, living love”, Wordsworth personifies the fountain, suggesting it has the human-like quality of being able to “murmur” and “live”.
Detailed explanation-3: -Representation of Nature in Wordsworth’s poetry He views Nature as a source of love, perpetual joy, soothing and healing power, knowledge and spirituality. Nature and God become one for him. He believes that Nature is the Universal Spirit guiding anyone who like to be guided by her.
Detailed explanation-4: -complaint, also called plaint, in literature, a formerly popular variety of poem that laments or protests unrequited love or tells of personal misfortune, misery, or injustice.