LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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The poet’s changing relationship to nature as fount of meaning and significance
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The falsity of human art as opposed to the immediate truth of nature
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The failure of the poet when a youth to imagine his future
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The utter rejection of youthful folly in favor of mature rationality
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lines 88-93 The speaker has matured beyond William’s unreflecting, un-intellectual, “thoughtless” appreciation of nature. Now, when he looks at nature, he’s able to hear “the still, sad music of humanity, ” which seems to mean that he can sense some universal, timeless connection between nature and all of humanity.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem features these lines: “Little we see in Nature that is ours; / We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!” wherein Wordsworth is emphasizing that the true beauty of the earth cannot be owned. He reveals that very few things that people see in Nature actually belong to them.
Detailed explanation-3: -In ‘Tintern Abbey’ the poet says that Nature is: “ The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart and soul Of all my moral beings". Wordsworth identifies himself with a special message of Nature’s relation to man and of man to Nature. He creates a gospel of Nature and Man.