William Wordsworth wrote a poem titled Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey. Wordsworth created it after taking his sister on a sightseeing walking tour of this region of the Welsh Borders. His fundamental perspective is outlined in the account of his interactions with the landscape along the banks of the River Wye. There has been much discussion about why the poem downplays signs of human touch in the landscape and how the poem fits into the loco-descriptive genre from the eighteenth century. The own history of the poet Wordsworth served as the inspiration of the poem. In August 1793, when he was 23 years old and unhappy, he had already made a trip to the area. Since then, he has grown up and started a significant poetic friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth claimed to have written the entire poem fully in his mind, starting it as soon as he left Tintern and finishing it mentally shortly before reaching Bristol, when he first started writing down lines. He was so happy with what he had just written that, even though the Lyrical Ballads the two companions had been collaborating on were already published at the time, he had it included as the ending poem at the last minute. Most academics concur that it is appropriate because the poem epitomises first significant creative period of Wordsworth and foreshadows much of the characteristically Wordsworthian writing that will come later. The poem is composed of verse paragraphs instead of stanzas and is constructed in tightly - knit decasyllabic blank verse. The poem is difficult to classify because it combines parts of an ode and a theatrical monologue. The apostrophe at the opening of the poem makes it resemble a landscape poem from the eighteenth century, but it is now generally accepted that the conversation poetry, which is a natural progression of the loco-descriptive, is the best nomination for the composition. [Information and Image Credit : Lines_Written_a_Few_Miles_above_Tintern_Abbey, Wikipedia] [Image : The Abbey and the upper reaches of the Wye, a painting by William Havell, 1804] [The work (Image) faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work (Image) is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the life of author plus 100 years or fewer. The work is also in the Public Domain in the United States; (Please Relate to Individual Source Image URL for More Usage Properties)] [Source Image URL :
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