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

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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. …show more content…

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