–In what sense does “Tintern Abbey” offer readers a “religion of nature”? What are some of the specific ways in which nature works as a substitute for traditional religion?
–Why do you think Wordsworth gives “Tintern Abbey” such a precise and detailed sub-title? What is the significance of this poem’s full titile?
–In the final portion of “Tintern Abbey,” the speaker turns to his “dear friend.” Who is this friend and what role does he/she play in the poem?
–“Composed upon Westminster Bridge” and “The World Is Too Much with Us” are both sonnets. Why do you think a poet might choose to work with such a highly structured form?
–Describe some of the ways in which Wordsworth’s poetry conforms to some of the features of Romanticism that we’ve discussed. What evidence can you find to illustrate this?
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Why do you think Wordsworth gives “Tintern Abbey” such a precise and detailed sub-title? What is the significance of this poem’s full title?
Wordsworth’s poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey: On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798” has many significant aspects to it. The first being that it gives an exact location and time of when Wordsworth was inspired to write the poem. The first part of the title shows that he is standing from an elevated platform looking down at the abadoned ruins. The second part tells the readers that he is at a lake on one of his walking tours. The title also states that this is not the first time he has been there and is revisiting the area to remember the good memories that blessed him for the past five years. This title shows that the man who wrote this has a different perspective, both literally and figuratively, from the William Wordsworth from five years prior.
–In the final portion of “Tintern Abbey,” the speaker turns to his “dear friend.” Who is this friend and what role does he/she play in the poem?
The speaker at the end of the poem turns to his “dear friend” who happens to be his sister. It’s her first time visiting and he seems very happy and excited to be part of her experience. She plays an important role because she is in the same position as he was back then. The speaker sees that his sister is acting the same way he did 5 years ago when he first visited. He says a prayer that hopefully she will be blessed and have the same view of the world after this wonderful experience as he does. His experience 5 years ago had such a big impact on his life that he prays for the same to happen to her and it changed the way he views the world. Thinking of his experience have made him a better person.
Why do you think Wordsworth gives “Tintern Abbey” such a precise and detailed sub-title? What is the significance of this poem’s full title?
I think Wordsworth gives the poem such a precise and detailed subtitle is to further enhance and emphasis his belief of “poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling. it takes its origin from emotion recollection in tranquility”. He specifically points out the place and time and even his perception on Tintern Abbey. By giving the full title of this poem, Wordsworth is able to reveal his nostalgic and love toward nature. By showing the readers he is revisiting a place where he had been there before, he is able to draw a connection with Tintern Abbey and be credible to describe the landscape around Tintern Abbey. Wordsworth is a poet who is able to portray a vivid image of landscape to his readers. Therefore, he detailed the specify time and place in order to depicts a vivid image and show his readers his internal thinking.
The final portion of “Tintern Abbey” addresses the speaker’s sister as his dear friend. The speaker’s sister is viewing this beautiful and secluded meadow for the first time, unlike himself. Throughout the poem the speaker brings in a feeling of nostalgia, but also awakens his inner being when he realizes that revisiting this meadow opened up his appreciation for nature. His sister is a significant component to the speaker’s revisit because he can connect to the awe she is feeling when being in the meadow. The speaker not only appreciates nature the second time around because he is viewing it with fresh eyes, but it is also a special moment he can treasure with a loved one.
–Why do you think Wordsworth gives “Tintern Abbey” such a precise and detailed sub-title? What is the significance of this poem’s full titile?
Wordsworth gives “Tintern Abbey” such a precise and detailed sub-title because it is a place that he is re-visiting. The feeling isn’t the same from the first time he visits. He wants to show as that it is an important place he wants to remember, and he feelsit is special when the second time he visits. When he gives a such detailed sub-title, I feel like it is a very important part of memory to him that he even wants to remember the exactly day when he is re-visiting. It is like he is writing a self journal that lists out the exactly day,place and his feeling towards things he sees. It is significance of this poem’s full titile because as a reader, we are abled to foresee what we can expect in the poem. The title gives out a lot of information to us and also shows the importance of second visiting to poet.
In what sense does “Tintern Abbey” offer readers a “religion of nature”? What are some of the specific ways in which nature works as a substitute for traditional religion?
Wordsworth has a very strong connection to nature and makes it evident in “Tintern Abbey”. He explains, in the present moment, that he senses something much more powerful in nature . He feels that something is living within the aspects of nature. Wordsworth is an obvious pantheist. A pantheist believes that God is in everything, and the way that Wordsworth speaks of how he feels of nature very much reflects this idea. He has an encounter with the divine in the natural world.
–In the final portion of “Tintern Abbey,” the speaker turns to his “dear friend.” Who is this friend and what role does he/she play in the poem?
In the poem “Tintern Abbey,” the “dear friend” whom the speaker is referring to is his sister. Her role is significant in the poem because it is her first time being at this place and the speaker is telling her, in great detail, about his first experience at Tintern Abbey. He wants his sister to feel the way he felt when he was there for the first time. He wants her to remember this place and he hopes that in times of difficulty she, like him, could remember this moment and find comfort in it.
Describe some of the ways in which Wordsworth’s poetry conforms to some of the features of Romanticism that we’ve discussed. What evidence can you find to illustrate this?
The poem “Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth talks about when William returns to the Banks of the Wye with his younger sister. One part of Romanticism that is being used in this poem a lot is nostalgia. Wordsworth is returning to the Banks after five years of being away from it. He talked about how his memory of the “beauteous forms” from the banks worked upon him while he was away from everything. He said that when he was back in the city or just simply alone, his memories of the banks gave him “sensations sweet, felt in the blood, and felt along the heart”. Wordsworth said he would have “tranquil restoration” in his mind just by remembering the woods and cottages. As Wordsworth is back to where he was five years ago, the memories of what happened back then makes him experience the same joy he had in the past.
In the final portion of “Tintern Abbey,” the speaker turns to his “dear friend.” Who is this friend and what role does he/she play in the poem?
The speaker turns to his “dear friend” which is his younger sister. In the poem, she plays an important role since she is visits this place for the first time having the speaker tell her his experiences when he was there before. The younger sister is significant in this poem because she causes the speaker to have a sense of nostalgia as he tells her about his experiences. Because of this, he appreciates the nature for the first time, and has a perfect moment in sharing it with someone who he loves dearly.
Why do you think Wordsworth gives “Tintern Abbey” such a precise and detailed sub-title? What is the significance of this poem’s full title?
Wordsworth gives a detailed title and subtitle to the poem to emphasize the importance of time and location on a poem. “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey: On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798” gives us the exact location and moment he is writing about. By using the word “revisiting”, he is making sure that we know that this is not his first time at Tintern Abbey. He is not only admiring the landscape around him but also reminiscing about his previous visit there leading to some nostalgia. The use of the exact date adds more emphasis on what time can do to one’s perspectives as he wants us to know that his life and feelings are different now, on July 13 1798, than what it was five years before.
–Why do you think Wordsworth gives “Tintern Abbey” such a precise and detailed sub-title? What is the significance of this poem’s full title?
William Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey: On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798” has a precise and detailed subtitle. I think the author wants to emphasize the theme of the poem. He also wants to show the meaning of a poetry; it is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling. when the words come to his head, he writes it down. The significance of this poem’s full title is that it is like a preface to the reader. We know the setting of the poem by looking at the title. Also, we know that that is not his first time visiting Tintern Abbey, he is revsiting. This poem is about memory, instead of experience of the visiting.
–Describe some of the ways in which Wordsworth’s poetry conforms to some of the features of Romanticism that we’ve discussed. What evidence can you find to illustrate this?
In this poetry , Wordsworth has demonstrated that nostalgia, viewing for the past with longing. He recalled when he first came here five years ago, every part of the nature was beautiful and give him a good pleasure.”sensation of sweet”, ” felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.” “of kindness and of love” This memory has been in his heart for years and he’s long for the days viewing this landscape.
Why do you think Wordsworth gives “Tintern Abbey” such a precise and detailed sub-title? What is the significance of this poem’s full title?
He gives emphasis on the location because of how important this place is that he is visiting. He wants to show that is memory of the place was very important and visiting the place a second time is a big deal to him. The poem is about his memory of tis wonderful place and all the things that come with it from the first time that he visited. He feels nostalgic and is reminiscing on all his memories from that place. Now hen he visits it brings back all his memories.
–In the final portion of “Tintern Abbey,” the speaker turns to his “dear friend.” Who is this friend and what role does he/she play in the poem?
His dear friend is his sister. From the poet’s personal life, we know that he was very close to his sister and loved her dearly. In the poem, as he describes the beauty of the nature around Tintern Abbey, he does it in hopes of his sister experiencing the same feelings as him. It is her first time there and he wants her to know how he felt the first time he was there. Her presence evokes nostalgia in him and he tries to use that to enhance her first experience there.
Sonnets have been used for hundreds of years before Wordsworth composed those poems. Famous poets like Dante and Shakespeare used them, therefore the weight of tradition may have influenced Wordsworth to compose in that form. The limits placed on the poet to compose a poem may also improve the skills of the poet as they must use creativity to work under such limitations.
In the final portion of “Tintern Abbey,” the speaker turns to his “dear friend.” Who is this friend and what role does he/she play in the poem?
The dear friend is the sister of the speaker friend that supposed to represent his childhood and how he saw Tintern Abbey when she was his age. The sister had the same expression that he had when he was a child towards the place Tintern Abbey. She was amazed just like he was and he feels that she should appreciate this moment that she is young and this place as something fun. The protagonist has clearly grown old and does not feel the same way he used to feel but seeing her reminded him of the feeling.
–Why do you think Wordsworth gives “Tintern Abbey” such a precise and detailed sub-title? What is the significance of this poem’s full titile?
I think Wordsworth wants to make for reader’s imagination. Reader could know where and when Wordsworth wrote this poem, revisiting the place, and etcetera from the title “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey: On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1789” This title let readers know the poem’s surrounding. It is helpful that readers can get certain imagination when they read this poem.