The Romantic Poem TINTERN ABBEY:
The sub-title of the poem Tintern Abbey' is 'Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey'. The poem was composed in 1798, five years after his first visit to the banks of the river Wye, for The Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798. His first visit in 1793, the year following his return from France, when he was in a state of intellectual and emotional turmoil, was still afresh in his mind. About the composition of this poem, Wordsworth writes: "No poem of mine was composed under circumstances more pleasant for me to remember than this. I began it upon leaving Tintern after crossing Wye...Not a line of it was altered...."
The main cause of his mental and moral crisis was his disillusionment with the French Revolution in 1789 and the war between England and France in 1793. He lost his faith in Man and even in God. He cherished to find some solace and this consolation came to him in the lap of Nature. Therefore, when he revisited Tinte in 1798, he was a chastened person fully aware of the sufferings of humanity. He now no longer cried and longed for 'dizzy raptures' and glad animal movements', but looked for a deeper meaning in Nature. On this tour of 1798 with Dorothy, he discovered that 'Man had much to learn from Nature which was Man's prime teacher'. 11.4.2 The Text Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winter ! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur.
- Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs. That on a wild secluded seene impress Thought of more deep seclusion: and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky. The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark Sycamore, and view These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts.
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