

The poet’s adult response to the natural world includes human as well as inanimate nature. July 13, 1798’, is one of Wordsworth’s finest and most celebrated poetic achievements. He responded with the senses to the sounds, colours and forms of landscape but the experience did not engage his intellect. That influence has encouragedĪs a young man, although Wordsworth responded passionately to the natural elements, his perception of nature appears to exclude the love of humanity. Wordsworth describes a state of heightened perception in which he is aware not of the material forms of nature but of an inner life force which permeates the natural world and exists within himself as well. He also attributes to his remembrances of the Wye valley a benign, although unconscious, influence upon his moral growth. Anxiety and despondency are experienced when the poet is away from the soothing influence of nature. He is remembered as a poet of spiritual and epistemological speculation, a poet concerned with the human relationship to nature and a fierce advocate of using the vocabulary. It was founded in 1131 by Cistercian monks, who were happy to make do with timber buildings at first. Ode On Immortality, And, Lines On Tintern Abbey Wordsworth, William on . William Wordsworth Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Genius Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth Track 23 on Lyrical Ballads The Romantic Poets. William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects. Significantly, this weariness is specifically associated with urban life. Gothic masterpiece became a Romantic symbol of the sublime Tintern Abbey is a national icon still standing in roofless splendour on the banks of the River Wye nearly 500 years since its tragic fall from grace. His recollections have brought him tranquil restoration in hours of weariness. In the second section Wordsworth considers what he has gained from the memory of his first visit to the Wye valley five years before.

These waters, rolling from their mountain-springsĭo I behold these steep and lofty cliffs. The image of greenness here is associated with spring-time freshness, and with peace and rest.įive years have past five summers with the length The various elements of the scene blend with one another, a connection which is strengthened by the effective use of enjambments. The poem begins with an evocation of the past. Written in blank verse, the poem is Wordsworth’s first major explicitly autobiographical work and the best expression of his thought, since in it he deals with the different phases of his life (childhood, youth, maturity) and gives the most complete definition of his concept of nature. Summary and commentary in relation to the key idea. Wordsworth visited its ruins when he was 23, and returned there 5 years later. Tintern Abbey, located in the valley of the river Wye, in Wales, was founded by Cistercian monks in 1131 and destroyed at the beginning of 1500. William Wordsworth: vita e opere in inglese WORDSWORTH LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY ANALYSIS Jpublished in the collection of poems Lyrical Ballads.
