On the Same Occasion
The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese
On the Same Occasion - meaning Summary
Triumph Over Winter
Wordsworth's short lyric addresses seasons and natural forces celebrating Winter's defeat. The poem personifies storms, mild seasons, blossoms, and zephyrs as actors in a communal triumph, urging them to proclaim the change aloud. Its tone is exultant and theatrical, framing cyclical renewal as a victory over an 'old decrepit Winter' whose power has been broken, so that nature's bounty can be openly enjoyed and praised.
Read Complete AnalysesYe Storms, resound the praises of your King! And ye mild Seasons--in a sunny clime, Midway on some high hill, while father Time Looks on delighted--meet in festal ring, And loud and long of Winter's triumph sing! Sing ye, with blossoms crowned, and fruits, and flowers, Of Winter's breath surcharged with sleety showers, And the dire flapping of his hoary wing! Knit the blithe dance upon the soft green grass; With feet, hands, eyes, looks, lips, report your gain; Whisper it to the billows of the main, And to the aerial zephyrs as they pass, That old decrepit Winter--'He' hath slain That Host, which rendered all your bounties vain!
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