Wordsworth
Wordsworth's writing encompasses this belief; at birth we are in our highest state of innocence and throughout life we become corrupted and fall into a state of experience. He paints this portrait for us in his two titles "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798" and "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood."The subjective and meditative lyrical poem "Intimations of Immortality" possesses the theme of man's inherent goodness. In section I of the poem the first vision the reader sees is pristine. These lines, "There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, / The earth, and every common sight, / To me did seem / Aparelled in celestial light, / The glory and freshness of a dream," (795) draw the parallel of nature to the divine. This moment of intersection between man and nature show us of Wordsworth's belief that that the natural world has spiritual power. He compares his "every common sight" in this vision to celestial light. The celestial light being the beginning or Creation, and provided the fact t
In section V of "Intimations of Immortality" Wordsworth uses the idea of pre-existence as a metaphor to make his readers feel this sense of innocence and pure spirituality. He says, "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:" (797). Though both poems celebrate the wisdom that comes with experience, "Tintern Abbey" does not have the scene of redemption and revisitation to innocence. Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, In "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" Wordsworth illustrates for his readers, again, the fall of innocence into experience. "And passing even into my purer mind, / With tranquil restoration: - feelings too / Of unremembered pleasure" (793), Wordsworth is contemplating what it was like to be at Tintern Abbey in an earlier state, a state with less experience, therefore closer to the divine. (794) hat "Heaven lies about us in our infancy," we know that this moment is a recollection of the state of innocence. In the following lines, "It is not now as it hath been of yore;- / Turn wheresoe'er I may, / By night or day, / Th
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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