Mutablility

Wordworth’s, “Mutability,” is a very solitary poem; not too much is going on, there are not a lot of different elements or characters involved, and the diction seems to draw out the purposes of the poem. Its descriptions and depressing tone display a background for a funeral of a sudden death of female. Wordsworth continuously gave references to “change” throughout the poem, exemplifying the title that he gave the poem “Mutability,” which means change. The poem also glorifies nature and time and how they affects the natural beings in the world. It is believable that Wordsworth is enabling his readers to understand the powers that nature and time possess over individuals dead or alive.
Even though Wordsworth designed “Mutability” to be solitary and conserved, it is highly complex and filled with multiple descriptions of different things. The diction, for example features complexity. Words such as mutability, concord, rime, and avarice give the poem its complexity, but they are very significant words that draw out description and completion to the poem. For example, lines 7 through 8 describe how nature and time have the power to cause the body to decompose in comparison to “frosty [melting]”. Nature causes the frosty rime to melt away, in time, just as nature is the cause of decomposition over a period of time. Wordsworth also introduces sublimation in this poem. This is vital because it expresses the suddenness of the death of the female in lines 10 through 14.

“And is no more: drop like the tower sublime
Of yesterday…but could not even sustain some
Casual shout that broke the silent air,
Or the unimaginable touch of time.”

Wordsworth helps his readers to understand that it is unknown how the female has died (possibly because it is insignificant), but rather draw them to the attention that time and nature work hand-in-hand, at any given time.
The structure of the poem reveals an important reference to death. For example, “Mutability” appears to have a set structure of rhyme in the beginning first 8 lines ( ABBA ACCA), but it begins to dissolve in the last 6 lines (DAC DCA). Wordsworth probably reversed his rhyme scheme in order to draw a parallel between mutability/life vs. time/nature. A reader would expect, if the rhyme scheme was to continue, to end up being ADDA and ending in a couplet, or DAC DAC. His unique structure would not be successful unless he kept the poem solitary; adding too many characters, elements, and events to this sonnet would cause it to become confusing and enjammed.