English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1121 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Tintern Abbey"
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The idea
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," of seventeen ninety-eight, is in blank verse paragraphs. Returning to the Wye, "Five years have passed," the speaker traces how nature fed his mind, and now hears "the still, sad music of humanity" and senses "something far more deeply interfused."
In practice
Return, memory, a presence in nature.
Where people slip
The abbey itself never appears in the poem.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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