He knew where they came from and was content to see the world as it was. became more dear to him—both for themselves and for the fact that He exclaims: “yet, oh! Indeed, even the ‘hedge-rows’ are ‘hardly hedge-rows’. is therefore very fluid and natural; it reads as easily as if it It seems that nature is playing that role in this poem, especially at the end of the second stanza, when Wordsworth describes a sort of transcendent moment: Nature, it seems, offers humankind ("we") a kind of insight ("We see into the life of things") in the face of mortality ("we are laid asleep"). Not a line of it was altered, and not any part of it written down till I reached Bristol.’ Wordsworth ‘wrote’ the poem (i.e. The sweetness of style touches the heart of a reader. The repetition of sounds and words adds to the ebb and flow of the language, appropriately speaking to the ebb and flow of the poet's memories. It is a complex poem, addressing memory, mortality, faith in nature, and familial love. He concentrates attention to Sylvan Wye – a majestic and worth seeing river. The speaker tells of how when he was here five years ago he ran like a child through the countryside. The blank verse that is used in it is low-toned, familiar, and moves with sureness, sereneness and inevitable ease. July 13, 1798.” It opens with the speaker’s declaration that five years have passed since he last visited this location, encountered its tranquil, rustic scenery, and heard the murmuring waters of the river. | that communion—specifically, the ability to “look on nature” and But of course the poetic structure is tightly Sharma, K.N. You can read ‘Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’ here; what follows might be regarded as some notes towards an analysis of this, one of Wordsworth’s most famous and anthologised poems. But Wordsworth brought out what was latent in Cowper and Thomson and gave it a new sense of importance and power. He had held the position of England’s poet laureate for the last seven years of his life. Nor less, I trust. “It is a beauteous evening, calm and free”. He thinks happily, too, He listens to her as she speaks and feels the catch of his “heart.” He sees how he used to be and remembers his “former pleasures” as he looks into her “wild eyes.” Wordsworth is able, through only a short glance, is able to see in her the person he once was. He says that he can hear the voice of his own youth when he hears her speak, the language of his former heart; he can also “read my former pleasure in the soothing lights of thy wild eyes’. The choice by the poet to avoid using any discernible rhyme scheme was due to the fact that he was addressing another person.