ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker says it has been five years since he last visited this setting.

Detailed explanation-2: -July 13, 1798 .” It opens with the speaker’s declaration that five years have passed since he last visited this location, encountered its tranquil, rustic scenery, and heard the murmuring waters of the river.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth visits the same place –Tintern Abbey along the bank of the river Wye after a gap of five years. He sees the same streams cascading down the cliffs of rocks making a mild incessant sound so pleasing to the ears. The steep slopes of the rocks look as majestic as before.

Detailed explanation-4: -Expert-Verified Answer Even in the present moment, the memory of his past experiences in these surroundings floats over his present view of them, and he feels bittersweet joy in reviving them. He thinks happily, too, that his present experience will provide many happy memories for future years.

Detailed explanation-5: -As you now know, Wordsworth (along with his sister Dorothy) was visiting the ancient Welsh abbey in the summer of 1798-again, we got that date from the title. He had visited it by himself five years earlier, in the August of 1793.