Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey
 - How theory gets inacted - if it does

- A famous place due to the "Lines from Tintern Abbey" and all the photos and paintings done of the location
- Uses iambic pentameter - though written in blank verse 

- The Poet is more sensitive
- Solitude
- Tintern Abbey was already in ruins by the time wordsworth wrote of it

- Wordsworth was with his sister Dorothy when visiting the Abbey

- The abbey inspires emotion

- A tranquil environment

- Wordsworth was grounded in the present moment

- Time suspended

- Recalls past (passion)

- A contemplative shift happens towards the end of the poem - future ponderings

- Human development

- I becomes "eye"

- Poetry helps us survive the dreary intercourse of day

Wordsworth gains a knowledge of the world and of nature. He gets to rediscover times of thoughtless youth before the "lamp" - the naivety of his thought and of society along with human development. He gains a sort of pleasure in being one with nature. Along with a sense of self discovery and spirituality in nature.