Walking Tour Flashcards
1
Q
How long did the walking tour take?
A
Four days 10th to 13th July 1798
2
Q
What is subordinate to the poets mood?
A
The landscape and natural scenery is comparably stylised and subordinate to the poets mood
3
Q
Wordsworth’s quirky footnote…
A
‘The river is not affected by the tides a few miles above Tintern’
- establishes distance of the open sea and, by implication, the disturbance of his former self aswell
4
Q
Wordsworth recomposes the scene like a painter
A
‘Blending, fusing power’
- his imagination emerges more forcibly in the ‘plots of cottage ground’
- authorial climax, ends all possibility of objective description with the picturesque vision of ‘wreathes of smoke sent up, in silence from among trees’
5
Q
How does Dorothy view the scene?
A
The same way he did five years ago
- his present realisation of ‘something far more deeply interfused’ will be repeated in her when she likewise revisits the scene, perhaps sometime after he is dead
