“Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey” was written
by William Wordsworth after a walking tour with his sister in this section of
the Welsh Borders. This poem is regarded as a conversion poem with tightly
structured blank verse.
The form of nature which involves the readers to go in deep
thought and bring relaxation that is called the meditative qualities. In this
poem the poet has expressed his memories, natural scenario and
beauty in some forms which take the reader into meditation.
“Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur.—Once again “
These lines expressing the flow of time.
After five years have passed, five summers, five long winters the poet is back
to this place of natural beauty and serenity. But it is still like the past place
where he had visited five years ago. The repetition of the word ‘five’ makes
the weight of time which has divided the poet from this scene. The following
lines develop a clear, visual picture of the scent. It seems that he can see
the entirely natural beauties. He can see the hedges around the fields of the
people; and he can see wreaths of smoke probably coming from some hermits making
fire in their cave. These images are a pure nature and they illustrate a life
of the common people in phenomena with the nature.
“May I behold in thee what I was once,
My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make,
Knowing that Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,”
Here the poet speaks to his younger sister. He gives advice
about what he has learnt. He says that he can hear the voice of his own youth
when he hears her sister’s speak. He is blessed that he can see his own
youthful image in her. He says that nature has never betrayed his heart. That
is why they had been living from joy to joy. Nature can impress the mind with
quietness and beauty. It feed the mind with live thoughts. The man who is in
contact with nature he cannot do any crime. So these lines also continue with
the same meditation.
“These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have not been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:
But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;”
These ‘beauteous’ forms have always been with him and it is
inborn in his mind. This image has been affects his whole being. They were not
absent from his mind like form the mind of a man born blind. In hours of
weariness, frustration of nature used to make him feel sweet sensations in his
very blood. He used to feel it at the level of the heartbeat.
Thus, to Wordsworth nature is a kind of meditation with the
other elements as well.
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