![]() JFive years have past five summers, with the length Of five long winters and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur. It is unrhymed and mostly in iambic pentameter. Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth (1798) Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. Wordworth’s poem Tintern Abbeyhas been described as offering readers a religion of nature. Good poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced and does itself actually exist in the mind. The poem is written in tightly-structured blank verse and comprises verse-paragraphs rather than stanzas.Poems illustrating the truth of “man and nature as essentially adapted to each other, and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting properties of nature.”.Poems designed solely to give “immediate pleasure to a human Being possessed of that information which may be expected from him, not as a lawyer, a physician, a mariner, an astronomer, or a natural philosopher, but as a Man.”.Nature and its influence on the poet in various stage forms the main theme of the poem. This structure gives it a conversational and prosaic style. ![]() The poem is written in blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter lines) using verse paragraphs. It deals with the subjective experiences of the poet, and traces the growth of his mind through different periods of his life. Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798'. It may he called a condensed spiritual autobiography of the poet. Wordsworth composed the poem on July 13, 1798, but he did not write it down for another few days, until he and his sister reached Bristol, so the thought that it records is the thought that he actually had on his return to the Wye. TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, July 13, 1798. The language of poetry used to delineate “the primary laws of our nature. Tintern Abbey is one of the triumphs of Wordsworth's genius.in a selection of language really used by men.” ![]()
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