With something of a lofty utterance drest— Religious men, who give to God and man their dues. "Resolution and Independence" is a lyric poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, composed in 1802 and published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes. By what means it could thither come, and whence; The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Resolution and Independence. Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods; Upon the margin of that moorish flood ", Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont, Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg. Through his meeting with the Leech-gatherer, he learns that through perseverance he can too be successful. My favorite parts were those that uplifted me. Upon the muddy water, which he conned, To genial faith, still rich in genial good; "Once I could meet with them on every side; But they have dwindled long by slow decay; Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may.". The grass is bright with rain-drops;—on the moors To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. And I bethought me of the playful hare: Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Resolution and Independence Wordsworth, William (1770 - 1850) Original Text: William Wordsworth, Poems in Two Volumes (1807). I saw the hare that raced about with joy; And he had many hardships to endure: From pond to pond he roamed, from moor to moor; Housing, with God's good help, by choice or chance, And in this way he gained an honest maintenance.XVIThe old Man still stood talking by my side; But now his voice to me was like a stream Scarce heard; nor word from word could I divide; And the whole body of the Man did seem Like one whom I had met with in a dream; Or like a man from some far region sent, To give me human strength, by apt admonishment.XVIIMy former thoughts returned: the fear that kills; And hope that is unwilling to be fed; Cold, pain, and labour, and all fleshly ills; And mighty Poets in their misery dead. Order now from our extensive selection of books coming soon with Pre-order Price Guarantee. bib MASS (Massey College Library, Toronto). Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Of sickness felt by him in times long past. His words came feebly, from a feeble chest, With something of a lofty utterance drest—, Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach. The old Man's shape, and speech—all troubled me: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace. But they have dwindled long by slow decay; The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As if life’s business were a summer mood; “This morning gives us promise of a glorious day.”. In the next stanza, Wordsworth tells of his chance encounter with an old man who is gathering leeches. The poem contains a variety of different moods from the wonderful idyllic imagery in the first three stanzas, to the sinking into melancholy in the fourth and fifth stanzas, on to border-line despair in the seventh stanza, and finally through investigation to a hopeful resolution at the end. At length, himself unsettling, he the pond Resolution and Independence; Date of entry: May-07-2001; Summary. Himself he propped, limbs, body, and pale face. As I read William Wordworth’s poem “Resolution and Independence” I first began to take notice of the poem’s length, structure and rhythm. And fears and fancies thick upon me came; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Resolution and Independence, 1802. Quick Reference. All things that love the sun are out of doors; The grass is bright with rain-drops;—on the moors, And with her feet she from the plashy earth. The rhyme scheme is ABABBCC, which creates a sing-song type rhyme at the end when reading the poem aloud. The hare is running races in her mirth; In my mind’s eye I seemed to see him pace But, as it sometimes chanceth, from the might. By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense: Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf. There are 0 reviews and 0 ratings from Australia. Plashy sounds much like splashy or marshy, which can both be considered synonyms, but Wordsworth uses plashy because it imitates the sound that the hare’s feet make as she runs through the wet grass. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? I heard the sky-lark warbling in the sky; Even as these blissful creatures do I fare; Far from the world I walk, and from all care; Solitude, pain of heart, distress, and poverty. To me that morning did it happen so; There was a roaring in the wind all night; My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought. In line 43, he "thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride", referring to Thomas Chatterton, an 18th-century poet who committed suicide at the age of 17 after duping many in the literary world with his medieval forgeries.