Analysis Of Tintern Abbey By William Wordsworth

Romanticism refers to various movements in language, art, and literature that originated in the late 18th Century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity and the primacy of the individual. It does not refer to the usual relations of romantics that involve suggestion of romance and love feeling. The artistic and intellectual movement spread across Western Europe countries while the attitude towards the movement differed from one country to another. Romanticism was adopted by the 18th Century poets such as William Blake and William Wordsworth. (Barth 19, 21)

Romanticism era was dated between 1750 to 1850, an era that saw the political revolutions in France and the United States. The era was also characterized by the social change emanating from

This poem was written by the poet in Romanticism era after the experience he got while taking a tour with his sister around areas of the Welsh Border. The poem was a description of the various encounters he and his sister met along the border on the Banks of River Wyre. Such environment provides the philosophical outline of the poem due to the imaginations in the environment and communion with nature that he was exposed. The poem fits within the 18th Century loco-descriptive genre since the evidence human presence in the poem has been toned down. (Stephen

It is also difficult to categorize the poem since it contains elements of the code and dramatic monolog. There is also an apostrophe at the beginning of the poem, therefore, showing it as a product of the 18th Century poetry. It is now agreed that the best designation of the ode is a conversation poem that is an organic development of the loco-descriptive. The poem illustrates Wordsworth sister as the silent listener in the poem as she is addressed in the final sections of the verse. Poetry before the time of Wood worth employed a lot of philosophical and intellectual engagements. (Stephen 70)

The history of William Wordsworth has helped in understanding the poem by firstly knowing that his sister Dorothy was the silent listener mentioned at the end of the poem. It is also important in understanding how the poem was composed and the various situations showing communion with nature. His historical background also shows that he was a Romanticist and together with another composer it gave Wordsworth the ability to grow further in poetry.