Tintern Abbey

and nature. Labbe states ‘by the poem’s conclusion, the speaker is not so much a representative of Smith as an aspect of the landscape itself’ highlighting how much the self becomes the natural world around it. This is mirrored in Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’: ‘these beauteous forms, […] I have owed to them […] sensations sweet, | felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; | and passing even into my purer mind’. For Wordsworth, nature acts as a healer which allows for us to become ‘a living…

The major point of difference that makes Jennings diverse from the Movement is that she is a sole female poet and also has a streak of confessionalism in her poetry. This chapter looks into Jennings poetry from confessional and autobiographical point of view. In Collected Poems (1986), Jennings preserves a number of poems dealing with the relationship between the composition of art and the experience of human suffering but she deletes most of the poems dealing specifically with psychic…

difference between them is their belief in a higher power. Romantics such as Wordsworth. believed that man and nature can be harmonic since it can connect us spiritually, and since he's a romantic, he worships nature as if it is God. For example, in Tintern Abbey he describes nature as "the anchor of my purest thoughts,the nurse, the guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul of my moral being,” (Wordsworth 110-112). But, in Hopkins case, nature can lead us to connect with God because of his…

Literature during the Romantic Movement was quite different. This shift was most prominent in European countries. Similar to the visual arts, the literary Romantic Movement rejection restraint, objectivity and rationalism. Now literature was based on themes of melancholy, mysticism, and the life of the common people. In Romantic literature the authors drew connected between the physical world, spirituality, and intellectual thought. Past movements highlighted the lives of nobles, describing…

“Some say plants don’t speak,” she writes, “Stars and fountains and flowers, don’t murmur against my dream; could I delight in you without them, without them, could I live?” (Line 14-15). She is asking herself if she can continue living her life the way she is when most people think that nature does not symbolize life. More than that however, she is able to dream of things like “the eternal spring of life” because she sees past the practicality of life. Through the greatness of nature she can…

Landscapes can embody values that have the power to prompt philosophical insight and a spiritual awakening in an individual experiencing a landscape. This notion is encapsulated in Alain de Botton’s non-fiction memoir, The Art of Travel (2002) and Sean Penn’s film ‘Into the Wild’ (2007). These texts collectively explore the philosophy of the relationship between people and landscapes and it’s potential power to nurture an intellectual and spiritual understanding of one’s self and the human…

Ryan Job was a decorated Navy Seal, a family man, and a modern-day American hero who served his country faithfully. Though he was blinded in the war in Iraq, he didn’t let that stop him from living life to the fullest and portraying his faith in his everyday life. Job was parallel to the Job of the Bible several times, always letting his hardships strengthen him and emerging as gold from the testing. There are some instances in my life and my friends and families lives that I connected with in…

Wordsworth also “…championed the spontaneity of authentic feeling and stories of everyday emotion”. (Puchner, 919) Also, much in the same vein of what Rousseau set out to accomplish with Confessions, Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798” asks what makes a self a self: how do we become what we are?” (Puchner, 921 & 922) In the poem, Wordsworth too spoke from the heart and extoled the ordinary. He brought to…

focused his later paintings to concentrate light on water, or the radiance of skies and fires. Spectacular sunsets occurred due to ash from the eruption of Mt. Tambora. This led to be an inspiration for Turner’s work. His early paintings, such as Tintern Abbey, stayed true to the traditions of English Landscape, which are very peaceful. However, in Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), he focused on the destructive power of nature. His style of painting, in which he used watercolour and oil creates…

The author of Ode: Intimidations of Immortality William Wordsworth’s conversation with his sister had recalled the emotional experience in his childhood. Wordsworth began to question why, as a child, he once has the ability to witness the divinity of nature but as an adult that was disappearing. The speaker of the poem is an older man who is thinking back about his childhood’s glory and connection to the heaven. With frequent shift of rhyme scheme in the poem, Wordsworth makes this poem songlike…