Tintern Abbey

In “Tintern Abbey” by William WordsWroth, He revisits a place called The River Wye with his sister after five years. Throughout his tour, he discovers that his experience this time differs from the one when he was young. Simply because he looks at nature from a new mature perspective; he views nature in a very deep way with an intense understanding. In this essay, I will interpret one of the stanzas in the poem which describes what Wordsworth was feeling during that particular moment of his tour. I did not have difficulty reading the stanza but when i read closely I was able to interpret it through Wordthworth’s vision. Feeling and experiencing nature in the present will bring you peace, wisdom and understanding of life not only at the moment, but whenever you dwell on its memory in the future. In stanza four, he narrates, “ While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present…

multifaceted; it lends itself to myriad interpretations and cannot be defined easily. There is no unanimous concept of power, as what is seen as “powerful” differs from person to person. The use of the term “power” is prominent in many of William Wordsworth’s poems. “Tintern Abbey,” “The Prelude,” and “Michael” all feature the term. From the prominence of the term in Wordsworth’s poetry, it is evident that Wordsworth thought highly of the “power” to which he referred. The “power” which…

“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…

Flights of fancy is an unrealistic idea or fantastic notion, or a pipe dream. The idiom uses “flight” in the sense of “a soaring of the imagination”. In the unit Flights of Fancy, the stories are “Tyger,” “Lamb,” “Tintern Abbey, “Westminster Bridge,” “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “Childe Harold,” “West Wind,” “La Belle Dam Sans Merci,” and Frankenstein. “Tintern Abbey”, “Westminster Bridge”, and “West Wind” all of have something in common; nature influences how the narrator feels in the poem.…

“Flash upon my inward eye”: The Role of Reflection and Tranquility in William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” In his preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth famously writes that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth, Wu 509). However, it is important to note that he modifies this statement by adding that “though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of…

nature in the most influential sentiment around. A profound philosopher and writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once said, “The happiest man is he who learn from nature the lesson of worship.” Emerson and William Wordsworth would both agree that nature is a profound and all important part of life. Nature allows one to set priorities straight and to appreciate the little things in life. WIlliam Wordsworth is a poet who writes about love, politics, and nature. Wordsworth takes a special interest in…

‘Tintern Abbey’ is a poem written by William Wordsworth. It was composed in 1798 and published in the same as Lyrical Ballads. It was composed on his second visit to the banks of the river Wye. His sister Dorothy was with him on his tour of Wye valley. The poem was composed as that were travelling from Tintern to Bristol. The poem was written down only when the poet reached Bristol. It is Tintern Abbey that we see for the first time Wordsworth as a true worshipper of nature. It shows his…

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey written by Williams Wordsworth is a very well known poem. Being a Generation one poet Wordsworth is also compared with Robert Burns and William Blake, all of whom were extremely acknowledge as brilliant men in their writings. Just as Robert Burns does in his poetry William Wordsworth's takes simple ideas and moves to more complex ideas. In the introduction to Tintern Abbey Wordsworth is traveling to an old medieval church that he had visited five…

William Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798” talks about returning to a place he had been five years before with his sister, Dorothy. The poet spends most of his time reflecting upon the magnificence of nature found at the abbey and along the river, and the worship of nature. Yet in the last section of the poem, Wordsworth turn those feelings previously reserved for his natural landscape to his sister,…

The Theme of Beauty and Emptiness in Wordsworth’s poem ’Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’ Reading Wordsworth’s poem “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”, it is obvious that someone looking back and remembering what he once experienced differently. In the poem we can find two major themes represented: beauty, and emptiness. In this essay I will focus on beauty and emptiness. In several lines of the literary work Wordsworth talks regarding beauty or refers to one thing…