“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve no, rather find strength in what remains behind” (Wadsworth, 1807). This quote by Romantic poet, William Wadsworth, in Intimidations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, accentuated the salience of nature during the Romantic Period in eighteenth century Europe. Previously, individuals supported industrialization, urbanization, and scientific revolution to make the world more efficient and less complex. Subsequently, the increase in industry caused many consequences for the people of this time. Smoke filled the sky, farmlands became urbanized,
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This abbey, known as Tintern Abbey, provided inspiration to one of William Wordsworth’s greatest poems. The structure, now in ruins, lay swaddled by the nature that surrounded it. He states that he hadn’t been to visit the abbey in five years, however, quotes that “These beauteous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me as is a landscape to a blind man’s eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din of towns and cities, I have owed to them, in hours of weariness, sensations sweet, felt in the blood, and felt along the heart”. Wordsworth not only iterates his view of this landscape but also how even the thought of it has brought him refuge from the industrialized cities. He claimed that a metaphor of the nature abbey consumed, refers to nature being greater than man. Being in the presence of the abbey he was able to grasp his relationship with the architecture. He writes, “The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, the mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, their colours and their forms, were then to me an appetite; a feeling and a love”. Wordsworth’s reaction to this scenery was like most others view of nature, even to this …show more content…
Both artists provided descriptive details of the structure. One difference in the two pieces is based on the perspective each artist used when describing it. In Wordsworth’s poem, he conveyed his view of the Abbey as if it was far away. He writes “The day is come when I repose here, under this dark sycamore, and view these plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts…. Once again I see these hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms, green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke sent up, in silence among the trees!” These words of William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey, suggests that he was looking at the Abbey from a distance. His view was of the chimney billowing houses, the trees that settled next to it, and the farmlands that surrounded it. J.M.W. Turner illustrated the architecture as if he were standing in between the columns of the abbey itself. In it lay the crumbling ruins wrapped in vines, tourists memorized by its
This abbey, known as Tintern Abbey, provided inspiration to one of William Wordsworth’s greatest poems. The structure, now in ruins, lay swaddled by the nature that surrounded it. He states that he hadn’t been to visit the abbey in five years, however, quotes that “These beauteous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me as is a landscape to a blind man’s eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din of towns and cities, I have owed to them, in hours of weariness, sensations sweet, felt in the blood, and felt along the heart”. Wordsworth not only iterates his view of this landscape but also how even the thought of it has brought him refuge from the industrialized cities. He claimed that a metaphor of the nature abbey consumed, refers to nature being greater than man. Being in the presence of the abbey he was able to grasp his relationship with the architecture. He writes, “The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, the mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, their colours and their forms, were then to me an appetite; a feeling and a love”. Wordsworth’s reaction to this scenery was like most others view of nature, even to this …show more content…
Both artists provided descriptive details of the structure. One difference in the two pieces is based on the perspective each artist used when describing it. In Wordsworth’s poem, he conveyed his view of the Abbey as if it was far away. He writes “The day is come when I repose here, under this dark sycamore, and view these plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts…. Once again I see these hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms, green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke sent up, in silence among the trees!” These words of William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey, suggests that he was looking at the Abbey from a distance. His view was of the chimney billowing houses, the trees that settled next to it, and the farmlands that surrounded it. J.M.W. Turner illustrated the architecture as if he were standing in between the columns of the abbey itself. In it lay the crumbling ruins wrapped in vines, tourists memorized by its