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Memory in Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”
• One of the most famous poems of William Wordsworth• Written during the Romantic period• The poem refers to a place called Tintern Abbey in Wales, Great
Britain• Wordsworth visited the place five years ago from the composition of the
poem
Tintern Abbey“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on
Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798”
• Comparison of mature state with the pure state of childhood mind• Escaping in the childhood memory from the complications of present
life
“Five years have passed; five summers, with the lengthOf five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springsWith a soft inland murmur. ……”
- (Tintern Abbey, 1-4)
Past vs. Present
• To establish a connection with the nature• Re-embraced memory of the past in “beauteous forms” that offer
“tranquil restoration”• Memory of past is very much important
• It shapes mind• It provides solace• He cared for his sister Dorothy and saw his past in her
• Tried to reconnect the past experiences and memory with the present time
Memory, to Wordsworth
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REFERENCES
• ACADEMIA.EDU• The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth (2006)• Bloom's Classic Critical Views, William Wordsworth (2009)