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Sabtu, 04 Januari 2014

The Analysis of a Poem “A Character” Written By William Wordsworth

A Character
I marvel how Nature could ever find space
For so many strange contrasts in one human face:
There's thought and no thought, and there's paleness and bloom
And bustle and sluggishness, pleasure and gloom.

There's weakness, and strength both redundant and vain;
Such strength as, if ever affliction and pain
Could pierce through a temper that's soft to disease,
Would be rational peace--a philosopher's ease.

There's indifference, alike when he fails or succeeds,
And attention full ten times as much as there needs;
Pride where there's no envy, there's so much of joy;
And mildness, and spirit both forward and coy.

There's freedom, and sometimes a diffident stare
Of shame scarcely seeming to know that she's there,
There's virtue, the title it surely may claim,
Yet wants heaven knows what to be worthy the name.

This picture from nature may seem to depart,
Yet the Man would at once run away with your heart;
And I for five centuries right gladly would be
Such an odd such a kind happy creature as he.
William Wordsworth
The poem “A Character” written by William Wordsworth. This poem describes the dynamics of both society and the human character. William Wordsworth tried to explain the changes of people face expression in ceratin moods and the face of personalities. He is fascinated with human personalities in that we can be happy one minute and depressed the next. He describes the ups and the downs, the full and the empty. When he “marvel(s) how nature could ever find space…” for all the contrasts, he is thinking of the obvious dynamic variety in humans that is less obvious in nature. Of all the natural occurrences he has seen and been moved by, he now focuses on humans.
This poem is talking about the opposite of anything in the world. There are so many changes that always change especially the nature, human, and society conditions. It seems like a couple. If there is a man there should be woman. There is also there is also part of the opposite thing based on the William understanding about the world and nature. In the third line of the poem, he says “There is thought and no thought…” we can interpret that there will not an existence without another existence. There will be a beautiful in a couple that two complete each other
In the opposites, Wordsworth goes on to describe opposites within opposites like when he talks about weakness and strength. Strength can be over used like in any movie where the superhero accidentally breaks something. Too much strength can lead to disaster; sometimes there is strength in restraint. When there is strength, but it is left unused or used correctly, it can be just as bad as when it is over used. Balance is necessary for everything.
In the last stanza, Wordsworth seems to be relating this to and experience from his own life. There was a woman who he loved, but she had another lover. Wordsworth thinks he’s better for her. He says the man would ran away and leave her to continue to love him and grieve his absence. In the fourth stanza, he talks about how her lover not noticing her and the shame in not realizing what you have. He also talks about how his own virtue will come back and benefit him in the end (although, he probably hopes she’ll notice it). So pretty much, Wordsworth wrote this for the woman so she could realize she has made the wrong choice.
In the poem with the title “A Character” written by William Worsdworth has a good in rhyming pattern. Almost all of the lines have the same rhyme patters. The rhyming patterns consist of end-rhyming and internal rhyming. This poem has an aabb end-rhyming rhyming pattern. We can look in the one until fourth paragraph.
I marvel how Nature could ever find space
For so many strange contrasts in one human face:
There's thought and no thought, and there's paleness and bloom
And bustle and sluggishness, pleasure and gloom.
There is also the internal rhyme pattern in this poem. There are some words that have a same aspect of phonology. In this case, although, there are not in the same words nut there are some words that have a same pronunciation. We can find this internal rhyme pattern from the fifth until eighth lines from this poem.
There's weakness, and strength both redundant and vain;
Such strength as, if ever affliction and pain
Could pierce through a temper that's soft to disease,
Would be rational peace--a philosopher's ease.
Another aspect that we can analyze from the poem “A Character” is alliteration. We can find this alliteration from the lines of the poem. Almost all of the lines have alliteration in this poem. For example, in the first until fourth lines we can find some alliteration from those lines. Lets, have a look to the blue types.
I marvel how Nature could ever find space
For so many strange contrasts in one human face:
There's thought and no thought, and there's paleness and bloom
And bustle and sluggishness, pleasure and gloom.
In this poem, we will also find assonance in the last four lines from this poem.
This picture from nature may seem to depart,
Yet the Man would at once run away with your heart;
And I for five centuries right gladly would be
Such an odd such a kind happy creature as he.
In the word “picture”, it has a same pronunciation [i] with other green type words. While, in the word “may” also has a same pronunciation in [ei] with other blue words.






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