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1. ‘Tintern Abbey’ with the ‘Immortality Ode’
beginnings and peacefulness that nature brings to the earth and to man are to
be cherished. Wordsworth came to realize the importance of man relationship
to nature as he expresses in Tintern Abbey and Intimations Ode. Wordsworth
connects man’s relationship to nature by memory, imagination, and perception
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‘Tintern Abbey’ (1798) and the ‘Ode:Intimations of Immortality’ (1802-06) are the
two great poems which express the gradual loss ofa ‘visionary gleam’ and also state
the poet’s self consolation, gained from maturity of knowledge. They bring into
focus the two periods of the poet’s life: In his youth he had a visionary power which
worked through Nature; later he found a ‘living presence’ which inspired him and
was the ‘soul of all his moral being’.
Both the poems start with the poet’s memory of the past. In ‘Tintern Abbey’ he says
how he was charmed by the beautiful objects on the banks of the river, Wye five
years ago and how their sweet memory restored his peaceofmind in his critical time.
The ‘Immortality Ode’ starts with the poet’s experience of his childhood when he
would see divine light in every object of Nature.
Both the poems bear a sense of loss. In ‘Tintern Abbey’ the poetlaments for the loss
of the ‘aching joys’ and ‘dizzy raptures’ of his youthful days. A similar sense ofloss
is noticed in the ‘Immortality Ode’:
“But yet I know, wher’er I go
That there hath past away a glory from the earth”
The sweet recollections, however, actas a sortofinspiration to the poet. He connects
the present with the past and discovers that he has not, after all, lost his visionary
power. For a moment Wordsworth regains his mental strength, and this gives him
joy and confidence. He understands that nature might fail him in one way but it still
supports him in another. He thinks that his loss has been amply recompensed. This
idea runs through both the poems.

2. With the growing years Wordsworthlooks on nature not with a painter’s eye but as
a translator who can understand its hidden meaning. Both the poems mark this
maturity of his understanding human suffering. In ‘Tintern Abbey’ he says that in
the sounds of nature he can hear ‘The still, sad music of humanity’. A similar idea
has been presented in the ‘Immortality Ode’. The poet will gather strength from the
‘soothing thoughts that spring out of human suffering.
Through vision Wordsworthfinds what he calls ‘a sense sublime’, an all pervading
Spirit which rolls through all things. When he feels himself in its presence, he
believes that he has transcended his temporal existence, and that, he is at the heart
of reality. Thus he feels that he is passing into eternity. In his childhood he had this
visionary experience very frequently but now it occurs very rarely and only at the
moment of meditation and deep imagination. This idea finds expression in both the
poems. In ‘Tintern Abbey’ he says,
“And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts”
Almost the same idea echoes in the ‘Immortality Ode’
“Hence in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea”
Thus through imagination Wordsworth can have a glimpse of the vast Eternity.
Wordsworth concludes the poems with a note of confidence in the moral influence
of Nature. His loss has been great but his compensation has also been greater. He
believes that Nature still sustains him, nourishes him and teaches him. His relation
with Nature is very deep and powerful. He is almost at home with nature more than
with human beings. Both the poems ends with a consolation that nature is still a
source of pleasure and inspiration to understand the meaning of life.
contrast“Tintern Abbey” and “Intimations of Immortality -- According to
Wordsworthman is a part of nature, not something out of it, or far from it..
Wordsworthmentions these five years in three different ways; ‘years’, ‘summers’
and ‘winters’.

3. In his youth he throve on a visionary power which worked through nature; later he
found a living presence which inspired him with devotion and was the "soulof all
his moral being." Contrast and Comparison of Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey and
Intimations of Immortality that, one notices a distinct difference in the use of
imagination within the two poems.
Base your analysis on theme, style, and subject. Although Wordsworthand his
circle commonly referred to the poem as ‘Tintern Abbey’, the significance of
nature… he bring into focus the two periods of his life: