Mutability (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
“Mutability,” a traditional sonnet of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter, is William Wordsworth’s meditation on change and transformation. Something that is mutable is able to shift, alter, and adapt itself, and the poet juxtaposes his reflections on the impermanence of forms to the permanence of Truth. Although grounded in concrete images, the poem addresses the concept of mutability in the abstract and entertains both positive and negative aspects of its manifestation.
In the first two lines, change is described in terms of dissolution, or breakdown....
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