aters, rolling from their mountain springs with a soft inland murmur." Words like rolling, soft, and murmur all describe the sounds of water and provide a soothing feeling for the reader. Then, in lines ten through eighteen he uses visual imagery to paint the beautiful picture of a rural scene:“Here under this dark sycamore, and view these plotsof cottage-ground, these orchard tufts, with theirunripe fruits, are clad in one green hue, and losethemselves 'mid groves and copses. Once again I see thesehedgerows, hardly hedgerows, little lines of sportivewood run will: these pastoral farms, green to the verydoor; and wreaths of smoke sent up in silence, from amongthe trees!”Wordsworth uses a simile to present his thoughts on the setting, "these beauteous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me as is a landscape to a blind man's eye." The blind man is a contrast to the speaker who has seen the beauty of the land and can re-create it in his memory. Lines thirty-six to forty-nine describe the transcendental feeling Wordsworth finds in nature, "of kindness and of love...We see into the life of things." This poem varies from the first two because it connects nature to the spirit of Man. Wordsworth once said that he hoped the poem's "transitions" and its "impassioned music of the versification" would make it sound like an ode (McCracken 89). In the poem the speaker, who is Wordsworth himself, is returning to Tintern Abbey after five years, "five summers with five long winters, and he is remembering the beautiful scene. He thinks of how the landscape played an important role in his life for the preceding five years. Then he describes how he spent time playing in nature without really thinking about it. This, of course, is one of Wordsworth's major themes. Finally, he addresses the poem to his sister Dorothy so he could share the grand sense of nature to which his meditation is an attestation. This poem best expr...
