Tintern Abbey Diction

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In William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”, he employs a tone of wistfulness followed by triumphant return and adds his own pantheistic worldviews to evoke a sense of the sublime. Through the beauty of his imagery and diction, we get a sense of the past and the present, memories relived and immortality through a shared experience. Let’s delve into the restorative.

At the moment of establishing memories there may not seem to be an overwhelming excitement, however as we put on the rose-coloured glasses of the past, our memories may become soothing and uplifting reminders of what was. As Wordsworth says in lines twenty three to twenty eight,
“Though absent long,
These forms of beauty have been to me
As a landscape to a blind man’s eye;
But oft

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