A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

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“In every walk with nature one recieves far more than he seeks” -John Muir. The poem Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, by William Wordsworth is about a man returning to a place in nature with his sister to see how he has changed as a man, and grown to take things in instead of moving at such a fast pace. The poem uses examples of Alliteration, Assonance and Consonance throughout the work.
Alliteration is the repition of initial constant sounds. In the peom he uses, “That in this moment there is life and food For future years”. The F sound in the sentence is the constant sounds used. What he means when using that line is that he see’s nature in a different point of view. Before he would be all energenic and rush through to get

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