Tintern Abbey Flashcards
Tranquility of the sublime
‘sensations sweet,/ Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;/ And passing into my purer mind,/ With tranquil restoration:’
His mature response has given him the sublime
‘To them I may have owed another gift,/ Of aspect more sublime;’
‘Abundant recompense.’
‘wild ecstasies shall be matured/ Into a sober pleasure;’
The sublime enables him to escape the world the man
‘That blessed mood,/ In which the burthen of the mystery,/ In which the heavy and the weary weight/ Of all this intelligible world,/ Is lightened:’
‘when the fretful stir/ Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,/ Have hung upon the beatings of my heart’
‘but hearing oftentimes/ The still, sad music of humanity,/ Nor harsh nor grating,’
Sensation of the subime
‘Almost suspended we are laid asleep,/ In body, and become a living soul:’
‘We see into the life of things’
The fearful element within the sublime
‘A presence that disturbs me with the joy/ Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime/ Of something far more deeply interfused,’
Interconnected with the world around him
‘A motion and a spirit, that impels/ All thinking things, all objects of thought,/ And rolls through all things.’
Involved with his poetic sensibility / requires
‘Of eye, and ear, - both what they half create,/ And what they half perceive;’
It is his rock
‘The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,/ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul/ Of all my moral being.’
‘healing thoughts/ Of tender joy’
His memories involvement
‘Thy memory be as a dwelling – place/ For all sweet sounds and harmonies;’
Such a sublime feeling it is like a worshiping
‘A worshipper of Nature,’
‘with far deeper zeal/ Of holier love.’
