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From flowing love to inaccessible love

From flowing love to inaccessible love

Diagram showing the movement from an open fountain of former love to a hidden well and the speaker's emotional poverty

The poem presents love through a sustained water metaphor. At first, love is like a generous fountain flowing openly at the door of the speaker's heart, but it later becomes a concealed and silent well.

2.1.4 A Complaint by William Wordsworth Lesson

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Literature
  3. /2.1.4 A Complaint by William Wordsworth

Step-by-step lessons on Edexcel GCSE English Literature 2.1.4 A Complaint by William Wordsworth. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Work through your set texts (Shakespeare, the post-1914 text, the 19th-century novel, and the poetry anthology) alongside regular unseen-poetry practice, since the unseen and comparison sections are usually the most time-pressured on exam day.

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