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An analysis of this famous poem by William Wordsworth focuses upon its romantic thematic elements in five pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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define Romanticism for contemporary readers and literary analysts. Wordsworths poem Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey is the quintessential Romantic poem because features binary oppositions that are
a popular genre device and nature takes center stage. For the poet, nature represents a physical and metaphysical place for comfort, renewal, and also change. Romantic literature consists
of immediate sensations as well as thoughtful reflections of times and people that have long since past. Tintern Abbey is Wordsworths ode to Romanticism and to the nature that
continually inspired its prose. Like other Romantic poets such as Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth was more spiritual than religious with nature serving as his church, a spiritual outlet and confessional.
He was concerned with the differences between the body and soul, which are addressed in lines 43 through 45 of Tintern Abbey in which he observed, "The breath of
this corporeal frame / And even the motion of our human blood / Almost suspended, we are laid asleep / In body, and become a living soul" (Wordsworth 80).
Here, he seems to be suggesting that the body and soul are capable of becoming one in the life experience because the beauty of nature and the insights it provides
can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical world as opposed to memory or a return to the past. Revisiting the
Wye Valley is, for Wordsworth, a way of turning back the clock (Wilson 60). This is evident in lines 30 and 31, in which he waxed poetic about "tranquil
restoration:--feelings too / Of unremembered pleasure" (Wordsworth 80). Unremembered is an interesting word choice in that the poet is questioning whether or not he is accurately remembering happy times
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