Shakespeare Poems
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Shakespeare Poems
Past, Present, and Future: Finding Life Through Nature William Wordsworth poem
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” was included as the last
item in his Lyrical Ballads. The general meaning of the poem relates to his
having lost the inspiration nature provided him in childhood. Nature seems to
have made Wordsworth human.The significance of the abbey is Wordsworth’s love
of nature. Tintern Abbey representes a safe haven for Wordsworth that perhaps
symbolizes a everlasting connection that man will share with it’s
surroundings. Wordsworth would also remember it for bringing out the part of him
that makes him a “A worshipper of Nature” (Line 153). Five different
situations are suggested in "Lines" each divided into separate
sections. The first section details the landscape around the abbey, as
Wordsworth remembers it from five years ago. The second section describes the
five-year lapse between visits to the abbey, during which he has thought often
of his experience there. The third section specifies Wordsworth’s attempt to
use nature to see inside his inner self. The fourth section shows Wordsworth
exerting his efforts from the preceding stanza to the landscape, discovering and
remembering the refined state of mind the abbey provided him with. In the final
section, Wordsworth searches for a means by which he can carry the experiences
with him and maintain himself and his love for nature. . Diamantis 2 In the
first stanza, Wordsworth lets you know he is seeing the abbey for a second time
by using phrases such as "again I hear," "again do I
behold," and "again I see. He describes the natural landscape as
unchanged and he describes it in descending order of importance beginning with
with the “lofty cliffs” (Line 5) dominantly overlooking the abbey. After the
cliffs comes the river, , then the forests, and hedgerows of the cottages that
once surrounded the abbey but have since been abandoned. After the cottages, is
the vagrant hermit who sits alone in his cave, perhaps symbolizing the effects
being away from the abbey has had on Wordsworth. Wordsworth professes to
"sensations sweet / Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart"
(lines 28-29) which the memories of nature can inspire when he is lonely, just
as the hermit is lonely. Wordsworth desires nature only because of his
separateness, and the more isolated he feels the more he desires it. This is
described in “Lines” : As that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the
mystery, In...
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