Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Analysis

Author Thomas Wolfe defined the true Romantic feeling as “not the desire to escape life but to prevent life from escaping you”. William Wordsworth’s poetry clearly captures this definition; he uses powerful and meaningful vocabulary to express this desire. In his poem Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth writes about his visit to the valley of River Wye and the ruins of Tintern Abbey with his sister. You can certainly tell that he is at peace with nature when he composed the poem—he uses nice, serene vocabulary like: “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