Review Of Shelley's 'Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey'

Compareing Shelley’s conception of nature with that of Wordsworth as expressed in the two poems “Ode to the West Wind” and “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.” Paying special attention to the three ‘T’s: tone, technique, and theme.

The two chosen pieces both have a dominant theme of nature. Shelley, in his poem “Ode to the West Wind,” uses poignant tone, while using personification and imagery to unravel his theme of nature. While Wordsworth’s “...Tintern Abbey” contains a governing theme of nature, Wordsworth uses first person narration, illusive imagery, as well as an amiable tone to avow his connection to nature. In his poem, “Ode to
On the contrary William Wordsworth has a completely different conception of nature, one of love, happiness, and affection. He views nature as a lifetime companion, as compared to his sister Dorothy. Wordsworth uses an amiable tone to depict a friend, “We stood together; and that I, so long a worshiper of Nature, hither came unwearied in that service: rather say with warmer love-oh! With far deeper zeal of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget, that after many wandering, many years,”he speaks with warmth as to characterize his lifelong companion and not to mention friend. Along with an amiable tone, Wordsworth uses first person narration to describe the times that he and nature spent together, the laughs, the cries, the disagreements and make-ups a true friendship endures, “Wherever nature led: more like a man flying form something that he dreads, than one who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The courser pleasures of my boyish days, and their