Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Analysis

Written in 1798, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798.” by William Wordsworth, explores the notion of the “weight” of the world being “lighten’d” through a connection with the self and nature (39). Wordsworth describes this connection as “sublime” and “blessed” to help reveal the understanding of what nature can do for the mind (pg. 132, line 40). While the poem opens with grand notions of reflection and meditation of Wordsworth revisiting a location from his past, his conversing with the reader and also his sister ultimately creates specific moments of reflection from within the poem that the reader can draw upon in their own life; Lines 37-42 ultimately become a huge part of this specific focus of

The poem in turn creates its own form of consciousness’s by attempting to show the reader a particular way to read poetry through both explicit and also interpretive examples that in turn create a moving conversation for the reader to follow by. This particular section of the poem, while a small part of the poems entirety, holds a fundamental importance to this style through the use of explicit statements such as the “burthen of mystery” but also through interpretive ones such as “in which” where a suggestive tone becomes enlaced within the poem. The overall consciousness of the poem itself is demonstrated through the use of blank verse, enjambment, tone, and anaphoric style where every element of the poem thus becomes dependent on each other. As a poem that attempts to have a conversation between the reader and author, Wordsworth succeeds in this by creating a both verbal and suggestive tone throughout the poem through showing the reading how to interpret their own