Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

William Wordsworth Time, Memory and Nature

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey is discussing memory and time. William Wordsworth is an english poet from the eighteen hundreds. In his poem Tintern Abbey the narrator describes the natural scene around and how it looked five years before. William Wordsworth keeps referring back to how he remembered the scene in the past. Dorothy is William Wordsworth's sister who joins him this time to see the location. Throughout the text William Wordsworth describes what nature means to him. William Wordsworth uses imagery to discuss the natural scene around him. In Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth, I will be arguing how nature and time can affect a person’s emotions. While William Wordsworth was writing his poems he was influenced by multiple people. William Wordsworth

David Kelly writes“In this sense, “Tintern Abbey” distinguishes itself from poems that mourn but then accept losing the freedom of childhood: it starts with a sense in the early passage that those glorious days are gone, but in the climax realizes that they are a necessary fuel, that memories alone are liable to use up the “presence” that gives them power.” . In other words, David Kelly believes that the time William Wordsworth spent in nature will always be for a memory. William Wordsworth himself writes “Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters!” . William Wordsworth point is that he wants the audience to know that he was there once before. The quotes relate to one another by Kelly stating that what William Wordsworth seen is only going to be a memory and Wordsworth opens Tintern Abbey by talking about his prior knowledge of the spot he is at. The way William Wordsworth writes affects his memory and time. William Wordsworth focuses on the past rather than the