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Title: William Wordsworth and Tintern Abbey


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William Wordsworthand Tintern Abbey
  • Fawn, Brandon, Henry, Emily

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William Wordsworth of England1770-1850
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Influence of Early Life
  • Both parents had died by the time Wordsworth was
    13
  • John Wordsworth, his father, was very educated
    and liberal and encouraged his children to be the
    same
  • Wordsworths hometown was in the beautiful Lake
    District prompting his early love and
    appreciation of nature, along with imagination

4
Influence of Other Life Experiences
  • Visit to France during the French Revolution
  • Friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Affair with Annette Vallon while aboard that
    produced his first daughter
  • Death of several of his children

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Influence of Nature and Dorothy
  • Believed all individuals have potential to reach
    a transcendental understanding of nature through
    his or her relationship with nature
  • Believed nature was the glue that binds
    everything together
  • Dorothy, Wordsworths sister, was very important
    to him
  • She experienced nature at an early age and her
    thoughts and impressions influenced Wordsworth

6
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,
on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour.
July 13,1798
  • Tintern Abbey is the cumulative reactions of
    the narrator as he returns to a place he has not
    seen in five years. The narrator reflects over
    the changes of the past years and the changes to
    come.

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Setting
  • 13 July 1798 on the banks of the Wye above
    Tintern Abbey
  • Tintern Abbey Abbey left to decay in 1536 by
    Henry VII
  • Wye River 5th largest river in the UK forming
    the border between England and Wales

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The Basics
  • Published as a lyrical ballad in Lyrical Ballads
  • Assumed the narrator is Wordsworth himself
  • Dorothy is referred to as Friend rather than
    sister
  • Does not actually take place within Tintern Abbey

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Pages 736-741
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Breaking It Down
  • Stanza 1 begins in the present as the speaker
    describes the beauty around him
  • Stanza 2 departs to the past as the speaker
    remembers how scenes of the place sustained him
    the past 5 years
  • Stanza 3 returns to the present as the speaker
    contemplates his connection to nature
  • Stanza 4 tells the reader the speakers joy at
    being back in such a wonderful place and his
    happiness at the new memories being formed
  • Stanza 5 explains to the reader the connection
    the speaker feels between nature and his sister

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Literary Devices
  • The tone of Tintern Abbey is nostalgic and of
    hope of the future
  • to them memories I may have owed another
    gift...a blessed mood
  • therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and
    the woods and mountains
  • Imagery plays a vital part as Wordsworth paints
    vivd pictures of the scenery
  • waters rolling from their mountain springs
  • the mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood

12
More Devices
  • Symbolism is prevalent through the poem though
    one stands out
  • In a poem about maturity, unripe fruit symbolizes
    the young speakers transformation into a
    ripened speaker towards the end.
  • Personification is used to bring the Wye River to
    life as the speakers spiritual place, a living
    place
  • O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer tho the woods, how
    often has my spirit turned to thee!

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More Devices
  • There are multiple themes in Tintern Abbey,
    most encompassing memories and their effects on
    life
  • felt in blood, and felt along the heart
  • nor wilt thou then forget, that after many
    wanderings, many years of absence
  • The diction and form of the poem tend to hold the
    reader and impact him in a personal way
  • Combination of blank verse and unrhymed iambic
    pentameter
  • Diction is forthright and spoken from the heart
    in a plain manner

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Final Thoughts
  • Tintern Abbey focuses on memories, specifically
    childhood memories and their effect on adulthood.
    It addresses the pure relationship with nature
    in childhood and how that relationship gradually
    dissipates in adulthood, but maturity of the mind
    in adulthood compensates for the loss of the
    purity.

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Works Cited
  • http//www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/296
  • http//kirjasto.sci.fi/wordwor.htm
  • http//incompetech.com/authors/wordsworth/
  • http//www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Lite
    rary/Wordsworth.htm
  • http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jwordworth.ht
    m
  • http//www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/ww/bio.ht
    m
  • http//www.english.upen.edu/jenglish/Courses/Spri
    ng2001/040/preface1802.html
  • http//www.shmoop.com/wordsworth/family.html
  • http//downloads.bbc.co.uk/arts/romantics/audio/mp
    3/wordworth_tintern_abbey.mp3
  • http//www.rc.umd.edu/rchs/reader/tabbey.html
  • http//www.gradesaver.com/wordsworth-poetical-work
    s/study-guide/section5/
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