Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

Reading this poem is like taking a trip, or rather coming back from a trip. It is like coming back from a journey because through the words you are allowed to reminisce and remember your own, similar experiences, also it put me in a weird mood. After studying this poem I have been craving summer, the grass the cliffs in the canyon, camping, and all the joys that come with summer freedom. How cruel it is to have sun-starved students read a poem such as this in such weather. About Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth from Dale T. Fetterman, “The use of detailed imagery within ‘Tintern Abbey’ provides a sturdy ground for readers to stand upon in order to effectively comprehend the subtle sentiments evoked from Wordsworth’s

Wordsworth’s connection with nature is made all the more clearer to him after he is returning here to Tintern Abbey, but it is also reaffirming because of the growing industrialism of the time and the fear that Wordsworth was probably feeling for nature, and rightfully so. From Jerry Smith, “The poem may be regarded as an essay in verse, and one of the finest achievements of a ‘feeling intellect’.” (Smith) What Smith means here is that Wordsworth displays how he cares for Nature and through his words he can be seen sitting atop a hill looking down upon everything and just being. A poet sitting in the grass and being. His act of being gives him an escalated sense of connection to the Earth, to his writing, and the readers can see it. They can read the connection and feel it too. From here Jeff Jefferson says, “He then goes on to describe how, being in Nature and focusing on the harmony of the natural world, one becomes open to the transcendent experience, experiencing enlightenment through the transformative power of Nature.” (Jefferson) Jefferson is talking about how involved Wordsworth becomes in his poetry, in the memory of being there, especially focusing on the