Memory in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"

1. Welcome

2. Nazmul Hassan
ID: 143010101003
Batch: 37th
Department of English
Memory in Wordsworth’s
“Tintern Abbey”

3. • One of the most famous poems of William Wordsworth
• Written during the Romantic period
• The poem refers to a place called Tintern Abbey in Wales, Great Britain
• Wordsworth visited the place five years ago from the composition of the
poem
Tintern Abbey
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting
the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798”

4. • Comparison of mature state with the pure state of childhood mind
• Escaping in the childhood memory from the complications of present life
“Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur. ……”
- (Tintern Abbey, 1-4)
Past vs. Present

5. • To establish a connection with the nature
• Re-embraced memory of the past in “beauteous forms” that offer “tranquil
restoration”
• Memory of past is very much important
• It shapes mind
• It provides solace
• He cared for his sister Dorothy and saw his past in her
• Tried to reconnect the past experiences and memory with the present
time
Memory, to Wordsworth

6. Thank You

7. REFERENCES
• ACADEMIA.EDU
• The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth (2006)
• Bloom's Classic Critical Views, William Wordsworth (2009)