tinten abbey- Wordsworth

signififcane of blank verse form

reflects nature as the semblance of structure unravels when examined further similar to how the natural world is inherently unknowable.

meaning of iambic pentameter as the rhyme scheme

conveys the passion as being unrhymed allows for spontenius flow.

summary of tinten abbey

reflects wordworths romantcs ideas that nature and memory shape the self written in responce to industrial change as as part of a movement that fundmanetallty redefienied poetry itself

theme of self and the identity

• “when like a roe I bounded o’er the mountains” simile shows how reflective of lack of appreciation shown towards nature while a youth.

• “the coarser pleasures of my boyish days and their glad animal movements all gone by” the animalistic human understanding links to romanctism and how his self-perepcetion has changed over the years.

theme of memory

• “Though a long absence, have not been to me/ As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye” reinforces nature’s role in anchoring his memories and the restorative impact on his health.

theme of restorative power of nature

poem written in response to industrialstian, implying that nature has the power to restore the human soul that urbanisation depletes.

• “in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din/ of towns and cities” suggests urbanisation as being both morally and emontially taxing.

• “life and food/ for future years” the description reinforces how nature restores us as wordworths suggests that its as important to the continuation of life as food is.

• “we are laid asleep/ in body, and become a living soul” collective pronoun of “we” includes all of humanity as suggestion that restortive quality of nature essential for everyone.

• “never prevail against us” plural 1st person reinforces healing power as “us” also suggest humanity as a whole.

• “setting sun” + “blue sky” both belong in the semantic field of light so ideas of clarity of vision both metaphorical and literally.

• “disturbs me with joy” juxtaposition. Wordsworth centred by experience sp nature is key to enable humans to endure lack of power.

• “to chasten and subdue- and I have” Caesarea forces reader to reflect upon and appreciate the restortive power of nature.

theme of time and change

overall poem suggests that the passage of time leads to loss and a greater worldly understanding.

landscape precious as while it still changes, it does slowly and differently so the poem is emphasising how the changing of nature is similar to normal passage of time more broadly.

theme evident in the structure as time’s passage is enacted with the speakers journey of change, loss and growth. suggests it part of a larger natural pattern.

• “when like a roe I bounded o’er the mountains” simile compounds how speaker has lost the spotunitey, freedom and energy of youth.

• “flying from something he dreads” suggests that the speakers past is unsophisticated, lacking the self-awareness now experienced by the older speaker who has the knowledge that you can’t run from your troubles. “flying” active verb so compounds this as suggests the active choice to repress emotions made.

• “still sad music of humanity” ageing means he can still appericate them and nature overall without feeling the need to run away from his troubles.

• “wild ecstasies shall be/ into a sober pleasure” sister will also undergo this transformation, highlighting the commonalties of the maturing process in a society where gender divides were highly prevalent.

anaphora device

• “Five years have past; five summer, with the length/ Of five long winters!”. “Five” repeated 3 times, placing emphasis on how much time has passed for the speaker and and creating energy that governs the energy of the speaker.

• “That time is past, /And all its aching joys are now no more, / And all its dizzy raptures.” Anaphoric “And all its” emphasises what the speaker has lost. suggests that speaker feels full loss of what aging has done with “and all” suggesting that he’s also lost a way of being.

personification device

• “clad in green hue” the personification of the orchards and the nature/seasons which “clad” them. highlights how nature can preserve innocence and purity.

• “nature never did betray” the direct personifcaon of nature as a woman appeals to the audience to attmpt to save nature (patrichary) and portals nature as having agency.

enjambments device

• “feeling too of unremembered pleasure” pushes reader over line break to end of phrase with the forward momentum suggesting that the lines are overflowing with feelings/meanings.

• “I cannot paint/ what I was” short lineation stands out and adds to sense that speaking his thoughts onto the page. Intensies meaning that speaker struggling to describe earlier experiences. Appears at point when speaker intrumpts himself- creating uncertainty and diffusely.

polysyndenton device

• “And the round ocean and the living air/ And the blue sky.”. Emphasies the interconnected quality of the natural world with the syntax connecting elements of nature and the universe with parataxis and a repeated conjunction.

end stop device

• “Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!” stands out as in middle of first stanza (only occurs one other time as otherwise any other end stop lines at end of the stanza). So is a dramatic pause highlighting how speaker stops and starts again moving into the rhymen of the poem. suggesting still devolving ideas on nature and that still in journey of accepting passage of time.

historical context

by 1798 France had gone cycial having gone tough reign of terror and Paris commune. by 1804 Napoleon became emperor. yet French rev hugely sig as democratic values underpinned romanctism as they aspired to move away from bourgeoise values.

set during industrial rev- contrasting romantic ideas of nature as they restore the soul after mechanised society has depleted it. wye valley actually industurised with copper and iron ores polluting river and a iron works being there.

literarcy context

final poem in lyrical ballads (a highly valued poem) and signals beginning of romanctism as emphasis placed on rural life and language spoken by the ordinary person became cornerstone of romanctism overall.