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    What does Tintern Abbey say about the pastoral? Tintern Abbey‚ written by William Wordsworth presents us with the pastoral in the past‚ present and the future‚ and deals with the importance of it within our society. Given the Romantic era during which this poem was written‚ he idealises the pastoral‚ allowing for the opportunity to emphasize the corrupt nature of the city life‚ and the negative connotations it has on society. Tintern Abbey acts as a sort of recluse for Wordsworth‚ a place of

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    William Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey" celebrates imagination and emotion over rationality and reason‚ and intuition over science. It is the beginning of English Romanticism in the 1800’s and Wordsworth was one of the leading poets of that era. He introduced the readers to grasp nature and fully appreciate all aspects of it. "Tintern Abbey" focuses on Wordsworth’s nostalgic experience on returning to the Abbey‚ but pays much attention to the poem’s theme of emotional beauty and nature. In this poem

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    WORDSWORTH’S TREATMENT OF NATURE IN RELATION TO MAN IN TINTERN ABBEY In his Preface to The Excursion‚ Wordsworth asserts that it is the ‘Mind of Man’ which is ‘My haunt‚ and the main region of my song’. Wordsworth is interested not in the natural world for its own sake but in the relationship between the natural world and the human consciousness. His poetry‚ therefore‚ offers us a detailed account of the complex interaction between man and nature—of the influences‚ insights‚ emotions and sensations

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    How TINTERN ABBEY evolves from beginning to end is in a truly reflective state upon the five years that had passed since he had last visited the ruins of the abbey. The ruin of the abbey‚ perhaps can be compared to the aging of man and the inevitably of aging‚ however‚ the abbey still stands as does natutre and its eternal splendor. The poem starts immediately with an adjective‚ "rolling" referring to the waters coming down from the mountain springs which do not disturb the "murmur" of the river:

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    Nature’s role in Tintern Abbey ‘Five years have past‚ five summers‚ with the length Of five long winters!’ We can see that the beginning of the poem starts with the speaker referring back to his memories‚ but what makes an impression is that those recollections of the past events are driven back to a specific place in time‚ to the childhood. Many people might wonder what is the connection between‚ the nature and the childhood‚ and why Wordsworth started his work in such a peculiar way. The answer

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    able to devote his life to poetry‚ and in August of 1795 Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Over the next two years their friendship would grow and in 1797 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfoxden House‚ which was only a few miles from Coleridge’s home. The creative partnership between these two young poets would eventuate in the first publishing of Lyrical Ballads. <br> <br>The publication of Lyrical Ballads represented a turning point for English poetry. It was released

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    Lines composed Upon Westminster Bridge 1. The poem is in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet. A Sonnet is a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of 14 iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. It is of two kinds: a) Italian or Petrarchan - falls in two parts - Octave rhyming abba abba followed by a sestet rhyming cdecde or cdccdc. It was first imitated by England both in stanza form and subject – by Milton‚ Wordsworth‚ Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. b) English or Shakespearean

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    Fern Hill vs. Tintern Abbey Both “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas and “Tintern Abbey” by Williams Wordsworth are written to share a childhood memory. In each poem themes of youth and time are evident throughout. Thomas and Wordsworth use strong imagery of nature to convey the power of a memory. “Fern Hill represents the passage of one mans life from boyhood to adulthood and the realization of his mortality. The speaker in this poem uses expressive language and imagery to depict a tale of growing

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    including William Wordsworth and made a point to inform us that in the romantic period authors emphasized a lot on nature‚ gave it importance and recognized that some people were violating and polluting nature. In William Wordsworth’s poem‚ ‘Tintern Abbey‚’

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    tastes like them all‚”. All of the aspects she lists conclude that this mental state she is experiencing affects every aspect‚ but is still indistinguishable. She cannot quite recognize the state of mind she finds herself in at this moment. In this line she uses synesthesia‚ where she provides an image of the tasting of death‚ coldness‚ and even darkness. Her mind then wanders to a Funeral‚ “Set orderly‚ for Burial”‚ the indication of someone being dead and buried leads her to think of her current

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