Nature And Time By William Wordsworth

Chris McCandless probably wasn’t the first to think, “When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.” In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and the short story “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, they both have the belief that by living off of nature and preserving it, the closer one will come to understanding the nature of nature.

William Wordsworth was a very wise man. He was born into a lot of wealth. In his time, the wealthy people could afford not to work. Some of them would just travel. They would walk from town to town, paying for whatever they needed to survive. Wordsworth was one of those people. He would take trips that lasted years. After one of these very long journeys, he came back home, and sat on a hillside a few miles above Tintern Abbey, an old, ruined cathedral. It truly was a long journey. “Five years have past,” he says. Five years is a long time to be away from home. As he sat there, above the cathedral, he thought a lot about what it was like to come back home. In his poem, “Lines Written a few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” William Wordsworth says a lot about the progression of individual life, and the steady, circular repetitiveness of life as a whole.

Throughout “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” William Wordsworth shows his relationship with nature through his choice of diction, fantastic descriptions, and shifting mood of his poem. There are also many words and phrases that Wordsworth included into his poem that shows how he feels about nature. These phrases are well written, extremely descriptive, and show how Wordsworth is influenced by the wild: “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils", “Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay: ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance”, “The waves beside them danced; but they out-did the sparkling waves in glee”, “I gazed—and gazed—but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought”, and “For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye [...] and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.” Another phrase, which indicates that the flowers were so beautiful that no true poet could be sad in their presence, also builds upon Wordsworth’s relationship with nature. These particular lines in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” show how Wordsworth’s mood shifts from somber and lonely to joyous and content. The lines also show how the gorgeousness of nature sticks with

Coleridge sees the effect the writings of the Romantic Era has on those who are not writers which make the assistance of memory and dreams in the writings much more significant. Along with Coleridge’s significance to the Romantic Era, William Wordsworth also contributed to the movement of memory and dreams in the writings of the Romantic Era.

The poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, 1, July 1798” is deeply rooted in its author’s personal history. It was written by the poet William Wordsworth after taking a walking tour along the Welsh Borders with his sister, Dorothy. In the summer of 1973, Wordsworth visited North Wales when he was still quite young and anxious, with the world on his shoulders. He was, at that time, still new in his profession, with very radical political views, as well as an estranged father to an illegitimate child in France. He was only twenty-three years old then. Five years later, when he returned to

Wordsworth shows how beautiful nature is and how much joy it can bring to people in this poem. In the first stanza he describes how he felt lonely until he saw a group of daffodils, “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, “When all at once I saw a crowd”. In the last stanza Wordsworth says that when he was at home lying on his couch he wasn’t in the best mood but all of a sudden the image of daffodils popped in his head and he was filled with joy, “For oft when on my couch I lie”, “And then my heart with pleasure

For most poets of the Romantic Age, nature played an invaluable role in their works. Man’s existence could be affected and explained by the presence and portrayal of the external nature surrounding it. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are no different from the other Romantic poets, and their works abound with references to nature and its correlation to humanity. Specifically, Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage” and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” share the theme of nature affecting man, although essential differences exist in their ideas regarding how it affects man. These two

This poem by Wordsworth was written in 1798, during his second visit to the valley of the River Wye and what’s left of Tintern Abbey, which was once a great medieval church, in Wales. Wordsworth hasn’t visited Tintern Abbey in five years, and this time he has brought his sister along with him. In the poem, Tintern, the three main messages I got from the text would be, love, the beauty of nature, and time. One of the major factors in Tintern is that the poem shows love. He does not only show love for nature, but he shows love to his sister and overall the setting of the place.

In the poem Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour William Wordsworth seems to be drunken from nostalgia as he revisits his not entirely distant past. “His passion for the landscape is physical, taken in through his eyes, unmediated by more abstract (or spiritual) thought (Pearson n.p)”. As he stands over the lush farmland, not yet ripe, he describes a familiar but missed beauty before he begins to remember his youthful state, compared to his modern and matured outlook on nature, and even begins to allow his mind to wonder onto how his young sister shall view the land. Wordsworth does here what most people will do,

Wordsworth, considered the greatest Romantic poet. Going against traditional poetry with his good friend Coleridge which was proper style, proper words, with subject matter. They defied it the used witty figures of speech, effusive praise with tragic complaints, oh the audacity. Since they did this though they helped build the Romanticism Movement. One of Wordsworth’s poems is Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey or for short Tintern Abbey. This poem is about Wordsworth’s trip after 5 long years back to an old, abandoned Abbey in Wales with his sister Dorothy. He tells us about the present of being there, to the past when he first came to this abandoned Abbey, back to the present talking to his sister about it and the future.

Whereas most individuals tend to see nature as a playhouse that should alter and self-destruct to their every need, William Wordsworth had a very different view. Wordsworth perceived nature as a sanctuary where his views of life, love, and his creator were eventually altered forever. The intensity of Wordsworth's passion for nature elevated him from a boy into the inspiring man and poet in which he is recognized to be today. One of the most compelling works Wordsworth ever devised was that of "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey." The poem enlightens the reader on the awesome power and depth of nature, which Wordsworth has discovered in his trials and

Similar to “I Wandered as Lonely as a Cloud”, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” also shows the development of the theme “the key to happiness is found in the mind”. Between the two poems, there are many similarities in how Wordsworth achieves this, however in “Tintern Abbey” he delves more into how beneficial positive memories can be. In this text, Wordsworth’s characteristic simple and relaxed style is evident when it comes to theme illustration. When we are first introduced to the setting, we immediately learn that that the speaker (Wordsworth) has been estranged from this place for five years. Not only do we learn this, but also that the length of time is significant, as it is highlighted through constant repetition of “five”.

In "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", Wordsworth uses imagination to help him and others to live in the physical world peacefully. He recalls playing in Tintern Abbey, a forest nearby there and played in it when he was young. Now he comes back for different reasons. He escapes the world which is individualism and goes to the forest to get away from all the burden. He tells his young sister that she can always come here to get away from her problems as well. In the poem, Wordsworth uses nature to solve problems in life.

During the 18th century, two great poets; William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge started the Romantic Movement. These two were also good companion and collaborated together to create “Lyrical Ballad”, which was considered one of the greatest works of the Romantic period. Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight” are the two major poems of “Lyrical Ballad.” Even though these two poems contain different experiences of the two speakers, the similarities are found in the message of the two poems, the language, the tone and the use of illustrative imagery to fascinate the reader’s visual sense. Upon close consideration and reading of these poems, it becomes clearer that they are basically similar poems.

William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" celebrates imagination and emotion over rationality and reason, and intuition over science. It is the beginning of English Romanticism in the 1800's and Wordsworth was one of the leading poets of that era. He introduced the readers to grasp nature and fully appreciate all aspects of it. "Tintern Abbey" focuses on Wordsworth's nostalgic experience on returning to the Abbey, but pays much attention to the poem's theme of emotional beauty and nature. In this poem, the reader finds Wordsworth's intense and loving memory of natural scenes.