ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -July 13, 1798. The landscape with the quiet of the sky. Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! The Hermit sits alone.

Detailed explanation-2: -"Tintern Abbey” is also a “Lyrical Ballad, ” which is a kind of hybrid of two different kinds of poem. The entire volume of poems in which “Tintern Abbey” was first published was called Lyrical Ballads. A lyric is a poem, usually in the first person, which is about the individual speaker.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Tintern Abbey” is composed in blank verse, which is a name used to describe unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter. Its style is therefore very fluid and natural; it reads as easily as if it were a prose piece.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.