ENG308Y1 Lecture 3: Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey
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A form of poetry in the 17th and 18th c. Situates the landscape as an important forum for engaging with mental processes, Romanticisms updating of the loco-descriptive poem political point, or social point. The mind, for romanticism, mediates or refracts the external scene through its particular consciousness. The text introduces us to an experience detached from it (line 1) Indication that the scene beforehand is in fact being mediated through memory. He comes to the place but he"s conveying to us past experiences. At the physical scene, he doesn"t reflect on the immediacy of the scene but 5 years ago. The opening of the poem signifies the function of memory and an indication that he has a consistent basis for an experience of the river wide and tintern abbey. He"s localizing specific scenes when he moves on. They"re also scenes that impress him again and again.
