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A 3 page essay that discusses how Romanticism is expressed in "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth and "I Have Visited Again" by Alexander Pushkin. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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on the natural world; increased focus on the emotion and imagination of the individual artists subjective view; and rebellion against the "established social rules and conventions," which for Romanticism meant
opposition to the restrictions of Classicism. Examination of Wordsworths "Tintern Abbey" and Pushkins "I Have Visited Again" demonstrates that these are Romantic works that fit these parameters.
The Romantics looked to nature for their inspiration and as a way to find connection with God and solace from the strains and pressures
of modern life. Wordsworth in the early stanzas of "Tintern Abbey" describes the beauty of the scene he contemplated sitting above Tintern Abbey. He revels in the "orchard-tufts" and
their "unripe fruits...clad in some green hue" (lines 11-12); the "hedge-rows...sportive wood run wild" (lines 15-16) and the rising wood smoke from some unknown fire. He also asserts that
"mid the din/Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27), the memory of this experience has brought him solace and "tranquil restoration" (line 30).
Similarly, in "I Have Visited Again," Pushkin, likewise, focuses on nature, as he describes the beauty of nature, the "golden cornfields and green meadows" (line 18) of his ancestral home
and how the "friendly rustling murmur" (line 30) of the pine trees always welcomed him home. Another aspect of Romantic verse is that it typically focuses on the subjective
view of the individual artist. Wordsworth values the view above Tintern Abbey for its intrinsic beauty, but also for how the memory of that beauty is useful to him. He
describes how during periods of "fretful stir" (line 52), during which the "fever of the world,/Have hung upon the beatings of my heart-" (lines 53-54), he has recalled this scene
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