William Wordworth's Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

There has always been a place in all of our lives that we can look back on and recollect memories of what those places were like and how we felt. Maybe there were certain sights and smells that could bring back memories of the area. In William Wordworth’s long poem, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” he returns to Tintern Abbey after being away from it for five years. He traveled to it long ago and this time he has returned with his younger sister, Dorothy, and finds out that it is exactly the same as last time. The sights, sounds, smells, touch, and even taste of his surroundings brings back the old memory from the past, and he thinks that it is a great place. Three messages that can be learned from “Tintern Abbey” are people can learn important things from Nature, old people can learn a lot from young people, and simple ideas can help us to understand complicated ideas.

Not necessarily talking about trees and flowers and wildlife, but the nature of your surroundings in general. For example, if someone is living in an overcrowded city that has stoplights on almost every street, he will sooner or later learn how to time each light just right to make it through each one. “For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.” (783, 88-93) by this he means that nature doesn’t always have a happy side, sometimes there has to be a sad side to everything. Often time, learning from nature can also mean that you could learn from others around you. Like in schools, children learn from teachers and they’re in some form of nature so technically it