This verse-paragraph is a painting in words, but at the same time we are kept at a distance, the recollections are only ‘half-remembered’. This is a formal philosophic statement of the presence of the Divine in Nature. He describes here the place that was the source of his inspiration simply and with touches that suggest mystery. (Can you detect here a connection with Yeats’ poem, The Wild Swans at Coole?).ĪNALYSIS BY VERSE PARAGRAPHS Lines 1 – 22: A Word Picture of the Wye Valley He compares the sort of man he was on both occasions. It is a double revelation that which he experienced five years previously, and that which he experiences in the present. As I have said already it is concerned with the revelations of the Divine in Nature (or perhaps the Divinity in Nature). It is set in Tintern Abbey on the banks of the Wye, which Wordsworth had revisited with his sister, Dorothy, after an interval of five years. Tintern Abbey is a reflective ode written in blank verse. The poem, therefore, illustrates better than any other his rather strange relationship with Nature, which was more personal and intense than his relationship with any person. The poem consists of five sections and these represent his developing relationship with Nature. It is, in a way, the Gospel, according to Wordsworth and he is an evangelist for Pantheism – seeing the Divine in Nature. The importance of this poem cannot be overstated.
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I answer that I am neither, and that is why I do so. I shall be asked if I am a prince or a legislator, to write on politics. I enter upon my task without proving the importance of the subject. In this inquiry I shall endeavour always to unite what right sanctions with what is prescribed by interest, in order that justice and utility may in no case be divided. I MEAN to inquire if, in the civil order, there can be any sure and legitimate rule of administration, men being taken as they are and laws as they might be. A gorgeous book about monsters and monstrousness, chockablock with action, cleverness, and wit. Novik deliciously undoes expectations about magic schools, destined heroes, and family legacies. And so, the first thing El needs to do after miraculously escaping the Scholomance, is to turn straight around and find a way back in. 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