Tintern Abbey

Group One: Analyze lines 1 – 49 and relate the significance of memory in this passage to the poem as a whole. 1. Laura Shennan: In the poem "Tintern Abby" by William Wordsworth the idea is developed that the process of memory serves a much greater purpose than simply remembrance. Instead through the progression of memory the speaker is able to leap beyond the constraints of reality and begins to see things in a new sense, he reaches a "…

…on the level of the divine, which is something he is not able to be a part of. This is quite a contrast to Wordsworth's experience of nature, which is much more participatory. Wordsworth becomes involved in nature, he sees into it, he feel the presence of the spirits within nature, where as Coleridge simply sees the divine in nature. This seeing verse feeling makes Wordsworth much more involved within nature than Coleridge ever was.