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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)