Saturday, February 16, 2019
Analysis of William Wordsworths Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tinte
Analysis of William Wordsworths Lines Composed a Few Miles preceding(prenominal) Tintern AbbeyWilliam Wordsworth rime Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey was included as the brave out item in his Lyrical Ballads. The general meaning of the poem relates to his having befogged the warmth temperament provided him in childhood. Nature seems to have made Wordsworth human.The meaning of the abbey is Wordsworths love of nature. Tintern Abbey representes a safe haven for Wordsworth that perhaps symbolizes a everlasting(a) connection that man will shargon with its surroundings. Wordsworth would also think up it for speech 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 theatrical roles. The first section expound 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 three section specifies Wordsworths attempt to use nature to see inside his interior(a) self. The fourth section shows Wordsworth exerting his efforts from the preceding stanza to the landscape, discovering and remembering the refined state of capitulum the abbey provided him with. In the final section, Wordsworth searches for a means by which he mess carry the experiences with him and maintain himself and his love for nature. . In the first stanza, Wordsworth lets you know he is seeing the abbey for a second clock by using phrases such(prenominal) as once 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(prenominal) the cliffs comes the river, , then the forests, and hedgerows of the cottages that once surrounded the abbey but have sin ce been abandoned. After the cottages, is the floating hermit who sits alone in his cave, perhaps symbolizing the effects creation away from the abbey has had on Wordsworth. Wordsworth professes to sensations sweet / Felt in the blood, and felt on the heart (lines 28-29) which the memories of nature can barrack when he is lonely, just as the hermit is lonely. Wordsworth desires nature only because of his separateness, and the more than isolated he feels the mor... ...ame more involved with human concerns. He has become more thoughtful and sees nature in the light of those thoughts. He has traded the boundless energy for maturity and the still, dingy music of humanity (line 92).Wordsworth ends the poem with the fifth stanza, a farewell to the abbey and the inspiration it has given him. He realizes that there may come a time when he may no longer be able to inspire himself with life-changing situations, and that he will not be able to run ski binding to Tintern Abbey to find h imself again. He does what he can, though. He will also be able to rely on his sister, who shared these experiences with him and in whose voice I catch the language of my former heart, and read my former pleasures in the scene lights of thy wild eyes (lines 117-120). Eventually even these may fail him, and in the closing lines of the poem he consoles himself that he and his sister will be able to look back fondly and at least remember their shared time together. Works CitedWordsworth, William. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 6th ed. Vol. 2. M. H. Abrams Gen. ed. New York, London Norton. 2 vols. 1993.
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