Analysis of William Wordsworths Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tinte

Analysis of William Wordsworths Lines Composed a hardly a(prenominal) Miles supra Tintern AbbeyWilliam Wordsworth rime Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey was included as the last item in his Lyrical Ballads. The general meaning of the poem relates to his having lost the inspiration nature provided him in childhood. Nature seems to have do Wordsworth human.The significance of the abbey is Wordsworths love of nature. Tintern Abbey representes a safe haven for Wordsworth that perhaps symbolizes a everlasting connection that man get out share with its surroundings. Wordsworth would withal call in it for bringing out the part of him that makes him a A worshipper of Nature (Line 153).Five divergent situations are suggested in Lines each divided into separate classs. The first section details the landscape around the abbey, as Wordsworth remembers it from five years ago. The jiffy section describes the five-year lapse between visits to the abbey, during which he has tho ught often of his mother there. The third section specifies Wordsworths attempt to use nature to see intimate his inner self. The fourth section shows Wordsworth exerting his efforts from the preceding stanza to the landscape, discovering and remembering the refined farming of mind the abbey provided him with. In the final section, Wordsworth searches for a means by which he can carry the experiences with him and maintain himself and his love for nature. . In the first stanza, Wordsworth lets you come he is seeing the abbey for a second time by victimization phrases such as 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 high-and-mighty the abbey. after the cliffs comes the river, , then the forests, and hedgerows of the cottages that once surrounded the abbey but have since been abandoned. After the cottages, is the v agrant hermit who sits alone in his cave, perhaps symbolizing the effect being away from the abbey has had on Wordsworth. Wordsworth professes to sensations sweet / Felt in the blood, and mat along the heart (lines 28-29) which the memories of nature can inspire when he is lonely, safe as the hermit is lonely. Wordsworth desires nature only because of his separateness, and the more 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, sad music of humanity (line 92).Wordsworth ends the poem with the fifth stanza, a cong to the abbey and the inspiration it has given him. He realizes that there may come a time when he may no longer be fitting to inspire himself with life-changing situations, and that he will not be able to gallop back to Tintern Abbey to find himself again. He does what he can, though. He will also be ab le to rely on his sister, who shared these experiences with him and in whose enunciate I catch the language of my former heart, and read my former pleasures in the shooting lights of thy wild eyes (lines 117-120). Eventually even these may perish 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(prenominal) 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.