Imagery Of Natural Surroundingsb Flashcards
What does he construct?
Vivid imagery of his natural surroundings, allow the reader to gain a picturesque view of the beauty in nature
What does Wordsworth convey in the poem?
The serenity and scenic view that appeals to the atheistic of the poet
What words does he use?
‘Wild’ ‘pastoral’ ‘green’
- tone of spontaneous growth of nature and life in his surroundings
What do the vivid and visual descriptions do?
Manifest a sense of ethereal quality that the poet goes further exemplifies in his poem as he slips into a meditative realisation
What does he go on to state about nature?
‘Of eye, and ear’
‘Both what they half create, and what perceive; well pleased to recognise….’
- Wordsworth is aroused by the visual and auditory stimulation that provoked an acknowledgement of the divine, an interconnected ness that is found in nature
His perceptions of nature
Ultimately transcend the idea of a ‘presence that disturbs me with joy’
‘Of eye, and ear…both what they half create’ Line:
106-111
What does he do through setting the poem in Tintern Abbey?
Symbolises the speakers live toward nature, the sentimental value he has for it and the inspiration it gives him
What does Wordsworth recapitulate?
His life as the development of his relationship with nature by contrasting his initial unreflective appreciation of it to a matured reflective appraisal
‘Like a Roe’
Through use of simile, Wordsworth attributes his younger self the solely physical discernment of the surrounding as that of unborn fish ovaries to highlight his premature lack of understanding
Reminiscent tone quote
Recalls that nature was ‘an appetite; a feeling and a love’
- through metaphorically identifying nature with human sensations he…
Through metaphorically identifying nature with human sensations he…
Suggests nature used to take place of all his physical and emotional needs
What does the tone and structure of the poem do?
His tone of soulful reminiscence and lyrical structure of the poem, written in iambic pentameter evoke the mood of serenity in the audience
To underpin humans’s everlasting..:
Connection with the natural world, the author metaphorically states that he used to follow nature ‘wherever…[it] led’
- he personifies nature by attributing it a human action of guiding, in order to underpin its transcendent lower and its colossal impact on the course of his actions
What did Wordsworth lose!
The inspiration nature provided him in his early childhood
- formerly he had a passionate unreflecting integration with nature
