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Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey.' (William Wordsworth)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19940322
Author:Rand, Thomas

William Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' refers to a prayer in lines 121-23 in a tone of desperation, followed by anticlimactic albeit confident words expressing faith. The prayer is contained in lines 119-21, where the poet envisions his reunion with his old self, his sister and with nature. Rather than seeming resignation, lines 123 onward allude to several biblical passages that are affirmations of faith in nature. The poem is Wordsworth's myth of salvation with nature in the role of God.

In his reading of "Tintern Abbey" in The Visionary Company, Harold Bloom finds in the apostrophe to ...

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