Critically analyse Resolution and Independence as a narrative poem

Critically analyse Resolution and Independence as a narrative poem

The poet establishes in the first two stanzas the mood of nature when he traveled on the moor. The tense can be confusing. Wordsworth begins in the simple past, but the past serves here the uses of the present in the sense of active recollection of emotion in present tranquility. The BUT at the beginning of stanza four introduces the contrast that exists between the joy of nature and the dejection of the poet. The time that he recalls was one of a rising sun, ” calm and bright,” singing birds ” in the distant woods,” the ” pleasant noise of waters” in the air, the world teeming with ” all things that love the sun,” the grass jeweled with rain-drops, the hare running is his glee. But the poet’s morning is one subjectivity of dejection; on this morning did ” fears and fancies” come upon him profusely. In the midst of ” the sky-lark warbling in the sky,” he likens himself unto ” the playful hare”; even such a happy child of earth am I / even as these blissful creatures do I fare; / far from the world I walk, and from all care….’ This is the joyous side of his life. But, in the midst of the joy, he thinks of that other kind of day that might come to him, that day of ‘ solitude, pain of heart, distress, and poverty.” In stanza 6 he recalls how his life has been as ” a summer, mood,” how the sustenance of life in all its nourishing variations has come to him so gratuitously. But, then he thinks also of the possibility that it will not continue so for one who takes no practical thought for his own care and keep. The question is, how long will nature continue to give freely to one who does not with diligent responsibility harvest grain for the garner of future days: ” but how can He [ in this case the poet himself] expect that others should / Blind for him, sow for him, and at his call / Love him; who for himself will take no heed at all?” the poet thinks of himself as poet, one endowed with his own privileged, joyous place in life, there comes to his mind the names of Thomas Chatteron and Robert Burns, poets in the English tradition that Wordsworth would admire. The association that he makes of himself with them is at one and the same time joyous and imminent: we poets in our use begin in gladness;/ but thereof come in the end despondency and madness.” The universal joy of the poet’s life is contemplated in range of potential sorrow........................................................

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