Amit Mandal

Rc college Tintern Abbey

William Wordsworth
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In the opening line the poet confess
that five years have passed since he
was last there. From the title we
know that he is in tintern abbey, on
the banks of the wye. But now the
poet is there again. And he can very
easily remember the things from his
first visit. He can hear the sound of
the mountains springs. This secluded
place helps the poet to think in more
deeper. The mountains connect the
landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Finally for the poet the day has come
to take rest. The poet is under the
sycamore tree and view the cottage,
the gardens, fruit trees.
It is early in the summer so the fruit
isn’t ripe yet.
The poet sees that the bushes in
front of the boundaries that are
spread over the boundery.
Then the poet points out all the farm
houses that he can see. And the
smoke is appearing here and there
from the woods.
The farms are referred as pastoral.
Smoke is a sign of human life. The
scene of uplifting the smoke that
might comes from a cave where a
hermit has chosen to live.

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The poet says that this beauty of the

landscape was not removed from his
mind even during his long absence.
It is not that the description of the
landscape is being imagined by the
poet like a blind man who is unable
to imagine the landscape fully.
When he felt tired in the big city, he
images the beauty of the landscape.
He also imagines it in his blood, in his
heart, and then into his purer-mind.
This feeling give the poet pleasure.
This scene gives a moral influence on
the poet and in his act of kindness
and of love. The speaker thinks that
he even owned them more.
The memory of the landscape gave
him another gift that was more
sublime. This sublime gift gave him a
blessed mood that has made the
weight of the world lighter.
The speaker then tells more about
the blessed mood that is created by
recalling the landscape. He is already
in a state in which the weight of the
world has been lightened and the
affection take him a step further.
This affection lead him In a state
where his physical body is irrelevant.
Even his blood has stooped moving in
his veins.
The physical body is irrelevant so that
the soul matters.
The eye is now quiet. The speaker is
no longer aware of his immediate
physical surroundings because of his
meditate state. We are not distracted
by our surroundings. We are able to
see the things as they really are.

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The speaker says that he is worried

about his whole theory that he has
made. He remarks all of this as a vain
belief. Wheather it is true or not, he
will still called out to river wye in
spirit. When he is in busy in city,
everything seemed dark and joyless
and even in daylight. The anxious
bustle of the world was getting him
down. He has turned his spirit to
enjoy the nature.

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The poets memories of his first visit

are being revived by seeing
everything again. The poet is
expressing somewhat of sad
perplexity because his youth is gone.
He is confused because how his
present impressions match up with
his dim and faint recollections.
He is pleased for two reasons at the
same time. First, his present view is
very pleasurable. Second, in future-
days, he is going to look back on the
memory of his present experience
with enjoyment.
The speaker hopes that he will live to
look back on this moment with
pleasure. Then he starts to describe
how much he is changed since his
first visit.
Now the poet is describing himself
from five years ago. He leaped the
mountains, lonely streams like a
deer. The speaker is running away
from something rather than chasing
something he loved. The coarser that
is enjoyed by the poet as a boy and
glad animal movements. He can’t
describe his past in words. The
sounding cataract or waterfall took
place of his passion and the colour of
the mountain and the wood were his
appetite. Nature supplied his feeling
and love. Nature had enough charm
and interest in its own.
The speaker can no longer experience
the same aching joys and dizzy
raptures that he can remember them.
The poet doesn’t recompense for the
losts of such days rather he has other
gifts. The poet has now matured of
his perspective of nature that is
Unintellectual, thoughtless.
Now he looks at nature and he is able
to hear sad music of huminity which
means he can sense some universal
connection between nature snd
humanity. Nature is not harsh, it
must be pleasant. The presence
disturbs the speaker but in a good
way. It helps the speaker to lift his
thoughts. It gives the speaker a sense
that there is something like a divine
presence that exists deeply
Interfused.
This something sounds lives in the
light of settings sun, in the round
ocean, and living air, in the blue sky
and even in the mind of man.

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The speaker defines the something

with a little more detail. It is a motion
and a spirit that impels all thinks that
think, and that rolls through all
things. He wants to emphasize this
spirit that connects everything.
This is why the speaker still considers
himself a lover of nature because he
is figured out that the
presence(something, motion, spirit)
connects everything.
The speaker loves everything that we
behold from this green earth,
everything that we can sense with
eye, and ear.
He says that he loves what his eyes
and ears half create as well as what
they perceive.
The speaker is happy to see the
presence in nature and the language
of the sense.
The speaker comes up with more
ways of Referring to presence, he
calls it the anchor of his purest
thoughts, the nurse, the guide, the
Guardian of my heart, the soul of
being moral being.
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The speaker says that even if he

hadn’t learned about the presence in
nature, he wouldn’t allow his natural
sympathy to decay.
Here is the reason why he will Not let
his genial spirit go to waste because
he is not alone. He has been
wandering around the banks of the
river without mentioning his
companoin. He calls her dearest
friend, his, dear, and his dear sister.
His sister named Dorothy, and he
really likes her. He says that her voice
reminds him of the way he used to
feel the language of his former heart.
And her wild eyes remind him of his
former pleasure. The speaker says
that Dorothy reacts to nature in the
same way that William did when he
was five years ago. He says that he
can feel his past in her. He is going to
pray to the presence but he calls it by
another name nature.
Nature will always answer the
speakers prayer because he is a
nature lover. Nature will always lead
us from joy to joy through all our
lives. Nature will make sure us that
we only have lofty thoughts. We
should keep our mind quiet and
beauty. It is important because there
is plenty to distract us from quietness
and beauty. The speakers lists some
of the possible distraction like gossip
people who talk smoke, people who
misjudge you, self-centered folks who
look down on you, the boring
interactions of daily life. Nature
needs to protect us from these
distractions.
According to speaker none of these
bad things will take away the better
of us or take away our simple faith
that everything we see is full of
blessings. The speaker is so confident
that nature will answer his player
that he utters what sounds like a
blessing or benediction on Dorothy.
The speaker wants Dorothy to
experience nature the way that
William experienced it five years ago.
He wants to have the same wild
ecstasies that William did. When
Dorothy matures, her pleasure in
nature will become sober.
Dorothys mind will become a
mansion for all lovely forms.
Dorothy’s memory will be like a huge
scrapbook of their visit. If solitude,
fear, pain, grief, should bother her
she will be able to look into the
scrapbook of her memory and have
healing thoughts that will make her
feel better.
The thuoghts that will heal her will be
her memories of how her brother,
stood next to her with his exhortation
or encouragements. The speaker
imagines a future after he has died,
after he is where no more can hear
his voice. Perhaps he is imagining a
future where they are not together
any more. The gleams of past
experience that the speaker is seeing
Dorothys wild eyes are his
recollections of the way William
reacted to things, because Dorothy
present reactions are same.
He asks Dorothy if she will forget
having stood together on the banks
of the wye after he is gone.
He asks if she will forget that her
brother who has loved nature for so
long, had come back hither to the
banks of wye after he is gone.
He asks if she will forget that her
brother who has loved nature for so
long had come hither to the bakns of
wye with an even deeper love for
nature than he felt before.
It means that she will not forget this.
She will not forget, he says, that after
all of his wanderings and the many
years of absence the view from the
banks of the wye are even more
precious to him… .. ..