Resolution and Independence (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Wordsworth
- First Published: 1807
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Suffering, Nature, England or English people, Personality, Speech, Meditation, Old age or elderly people, Happiness, Joy or sorrow
The Poem
“Resolution and Independence,” known in manuscript as “The Leech Gatherer,” is a poem of 140 lines divided into twenty stanzas. The published title suggests the thematic moral learned by the speaker from an encounter with the leech gatherer, who supplies the manuscript title.
The poem is written in the first person, the speaker probably being the poet himself (when he was about to be married), who describes a strange experience he had one spring morning when he met an old man while walking across an English moor. The first two stanzas set the scene of an...
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