![]() ![]() He first states his doctrine: the memory of this scene has been not only soothing and healing, but has aroused feelings of pleasure, which have resulted in impulses of kindness and love. These lines are a perfect example to us of what Wordsworth meant by the phrase, ‘Emotion recollected in tranquillity’ – which he uses in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. Lines 23 – 50: Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity The repetition of ‘once again’ lends a distancing effect underlining the passage of time. The final five lines of the paragraph again emphasise the silence with a magnificent use of sibilants. There is a breath-catching pause as he tries to recollect the hedgerows, ‘hardly hedgerows, little lines / Of sportive wood run wild’. ![]() The word-picture is very effective in its colour and implied colour, and in the sounds that reflect the images he creates for us, the waters ‘rolling from their mountain springs / With a soft inland murmur’, and the silence of the place emphasised by the sibilants in ‘wild secluded scene impress / Thoughts of more deep seclusion’. This verse-paragraph is a painting in words, but at the same time we are kept at a distance, the recollections are only ‘half-remembered’. This is a formal philosophic statement of the presence of the Divine in Nature. He describes here the place that was the source of his inspiration simply and with touches that suggest mystery. (Can you detect here a connection with Yeats’ poem, The Wild Swans at Coole?).ĪNALYSIS BY VERSE PARAGRAPHS Lines 1 – 22: A Word Picture of the Wye Valley ![]() He compares the sort of man he was on both occasions. It is a double revelation that which he experienced five years previously, and that which he experiences in the present. As I have said already it is concerned with the revelations of the Divine in Nature (or perhaps the Divinity in Nature). It is set in Tintern Abbey on the banks of the Wye, which Wordsworth had revisited with his sister, Dorothy, after an interval of five years. Tintern Abbey is a reflective ode written in blank verse. The poem, therefore, illustrates better than any other his rather strange relationship with Nature, which was more personal and intense than his relationship with any person. The poem consists of five sections and these represent his developing relationship with Nature. It is, in a way, the Gospel, according to Wordsworth and he is an evangelist for Pantheism – seeing the Divine in Nature. The importance of this poem cannot be overstated. ![]()
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